Times Educational Supplement - TES:
'Revolving door' warning
19 August 2016
The Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) at the London School of Economics tracked a cohort of 575,000 teenagers for four years to find out what progress they made after GCSEs. The researchers' findings were stark: among the learners who sat GCSEs at the age of 16 in 2009-10, about 10,000 were found to be working towards low-level qualifications for four consecutive years.
This article was published by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) on August 19, 2016
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Related publications
Post-Compulsory Education in England: Choices and Implications, Claudia Hupkau, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Guglielmo Ventura, CVER Discussion Paper No.001, July 2016
Related links
Claudia Hupkau webpage
Sandra McNally webpage
Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela webpage
Guglielmo Ventura webpage
Centre for Vocational Education Research website
Education and Skills Programme webpage