High performing but less academic students need more ways to get on
Dr Stefan Speckesser of NIESR and CVER discusses a comparison study of 16 to 18-year-old students following A-Level or vocational and technical routes. It shows us that Non-A-level students need more options for progression. Continued education investment should be the first choice for young people showing the best performance and achievement in both A-Level and vocational and technical routes (a??Non-A-Levelsa??) between the ages of 16 and 18. For these successful students, attending higher education yields significant returns to education investment, especially in terms of life-time earnings, as shown for example is a recent report by the IFS. However, my recent study with Matthew Bursnall and Andreina Naddeo, based on school-level data and linked education records found large differences in patterns of progression to higher education, which are mainly resulting from the choice of A-Level and Non-A-Level routes in upper secondary education, the so called Key Stage 5 (KS5).
7 February 2019
CVER Blog
http://cver-blog.blogspot.com/2019/02/high-performing-but-less-academic.html
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