Destinations of Leavers from Scottish Schools: 2002/03

Destinations Of Leavers From Scottish Schools: 2002/03

Percentage of school leavers from publicly funded schools in Scotland
By destination category and gender: 1992/93 to 2002/03

Table 1

Year	Number of leavers	full time higher education	full time further education	training	employment	unemployed and seeking employment or training	unemployed and not seeking employment or training	other known destinations	destination unknown
1992-19 93	55,800	25	15	19	21			13	6
1993-1994	53,694	27	15	18	22			14	4
1994-1995	56,832	27	16	16	24			14	3
1995-1996	57,372	28	17	14	23			14	4
1996-1997	60,381	29	18	11	25			13	3
1997-1998	59,286	30	19	10	26			13	3
1998-1999	57,194	31	18	8	26			14	3
1999-2000*	55,569	32	19	7	26			13	3
2000-2001*	57,067	32	20	6	24			14	4
2001-2002*	56,513	32	20	6	23			16	3
2002-2003	57,266	31	21	5	23	12	4		4
male	29,380	27	18	6	27	15	4		4
female	27,886	35	23	4	19	10	4		4

* Scotland figures for these years have been revised to include grant-aided schools.

Percentage of school leavers from independent schools in Scotland
By destination category and gender: 1995/96 to 2002/03

Table 2

Year	Number of leavers	full time higher education	full time further education	training	employment	unemployed and seeking employment or training	unemployed and not seeking employment or training	other known destinations	destination unknown
1995-1996	3,342	74	9	1	2			13	1
1996-1997	3,119	76	8	1	2			10	3
1997-1998	3,300	84	7	1	2			4	2
1998-1999	3,281	83	8	1	3			5	2
1999-2000	3,074	83	6	0	3			4	3
2000-2001	3,016	84	7	0	2			4	3
2001-2002	2,994	83	6	0	2			4	4
2002-2003	2,893	83	7	0	3	0	2		3
male	1,444	83	7	0	4	0	3		4
female	1,449	84	8	0	2	0	2		3

Young People in Training (16-24 year olds with employed or trainee status): 1998/03

Table 3

As at:	Modern Apprenticeships	Other Skillseekers (including Get Ready for Work clients)	Total Skillseekers
October 1998	8,110	26,924	35,034
October 1999	13,265	26,250	39,515
October 2000	16,202	23,080	39,282
October 2001	18,421	15,651	34,072
October 2002	21,479	14,151	35,630
October 2003	23,722	13,229	36,951

Source: Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise

Table 3 - the Skillseekers programme was fully implemented in Scotland in 1996. The target group is 16-17 year olds (the Youth Guarantee Group), and Local Enterprise Companies (LECs) have discretion to fund training for 18-24 year olds. 'Get Ready for Work' is the strand of Skillseekers that covers provision for young people with additional support needs. Modern Apprenticeships (MAs) were introduced in 1996 and are primarily for 16-24 year olds. However, LECs have discretion to fund employees aged over 25. The proportion of school leavers entering employment who are also on Skillseekers or Modern Apprenticeship training is not known. Table 3 gives the number of young people training on these programmes to October 2003. At October 2003, around 75 per cent of mainstream Skillseekers and 99 per cent of Modern Apprentices received a wage.

EDUCATION AUTHORITY - SUMMARY 2000/01 to 2002/03

Table 4

		Percentage of school leavers
	Total number of school leavers	entering full time higher education			entering full time further education			entering training			entering employment			unemployed and seeking employment or training			unemployed and not seeking employment or training			whose destination is unknown
	02-03	00-01	01-02	02-03	00-01	01-02	02-03	00-01	01-02	02-03	00-01	01-02	02-03	00-01	01-02	02-03	00-01	01-02	02-03	00-01	01-02	02-03
Scotland Total	57,266	32	32	31	20	20	21	6	6	5	24	23	23			12			4	4	3	4

Aberdeen City	2,005	33	32	35	20	23	22	0	0	0	23	20	20			14			2	9	10	6
Aberdeenshire (1)	2,674	44	41	43	21	24	19	2	0	1	25	24	21			7			6	3	3	3
Angus	1,341	31	34	34	31	30	27	5	4	3	17	17	18			5			10	3	2	3
Argyll & Bute	993	36	36	33	17	15	14	1	2	3	33	33	35			9			4	2	1	1
Clackmannanshire	608	26	25	23	16	19	22	17	**	8	20	25	23			17			7	0	**	**
Dumfries & Galloway	1,724	33	38	32	23	20	20	9	7	5	21	21	28			7			4	5	5	4
Dundee City	1,742	27	28	24	24	27	28	8	6	6	17	17	17			11			10	4	2	5
East Ayrshire	1,432	31	30	28	20	17	22	12	15	7	18	15	19			20			1	2	3	3
East Dunbartonshire	1,760	47	46	38	16	20	23	2	1	2	20	21	23			7			4	7	2	3
East Lothian	917	27	28	27	14	15	14	5	4	2	38	32	27			17			1	6	7	12
East Renfrewshire	1,238	53	52	50	18	18	15	1	2	2	19	18	21			5			4	2	1	3
City of Edinburgh	3,584	29	30	28	19	17	19	4	3	2	34	33	29			14			2	3	4	5
Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar	377	40	44	41	23	15	21	6	11	11	29	25	25			2			**	0	0	0
Falkirk	1,581	31	30	29	13	14	12	12	10	7	25	25	25			21			4	1	2	3
Fife	4,175	31	33	32	20	22	24	9	6	4	18	15	18			14			6	4	3	3
Glasgow City	5,376	20	19	20	22	25	25	6	7	8	24	22	22			18			4	3	2	3
Highland	2,769	33	32	31	19	18	18	2	2	2	31	32	33			5			4	9	8	6
Inverclyde	1,103	31	33	29	20	22	23	13	11	12	18	14	14			15			3	2	1	4
Midlothian	991	25	25	23	14	19	21	6	5	3	37	34	34			12			1	9	6	6
Moray	1,077	28	31	30	23	23	19	1	2	1	34	32	34			7			1	8	3	8
North Ayrshire	1,571	29	33	30	24	24	25	9	13	10	15	14	14			13			2	8	6	5
North Lanarkshire	4,050	30	29	28	19	18	17	9	9	7	26	23	24			18			3	1	2	3
Orkney Islands	265	37	38	38	31	19	19	6	5	6	19	25	26			3			5	1	3	2
Perth & Kinross	1,321	41	40	36	17	17	18	3	3	2	26	25	27			7			7	3	4	3
Renfrewshire	2,149	32	34	32	18	19	17	9	6	6	23	24	25			14			4	2	2	3
Scottish Borders	1,162	38	36	41	25	28	26	2	1	1	21	21	21			5			3	2	2	2
Shetland Islands	304	33	28	27	18	**	13	0	0	**	44	52	46			8			4	0	**	**
South Ayrshire	1,284	43	43	39	16	14	21	8	7	5	14	14	15			11			4	3	5	4
South Lanarkshire	3,590	37	35	32	16	17	19	8	9	7	24	18	23			13			2	2	1	3
Stirling	1,007	38	36	37	17	14	15	8	7	6	20	22	19			15			5	1	3	3
West Dunbartonshire	1,240	26	29	29	21	25	27	8	7	6	21	16	19			12			5	10	3	2
West Lothian	1,772	26	26	24	20	16	19	8	7	6	31	28	24			14			3	3	5	10

Note A: Where two asterisks (**) have been inserted the number of leavers who have destinations in any category is less than 5.
⁽¹⁾ Careers Scotland amended data 17/1/03

Page updated: Thursday, May 18, 2006

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