England's most widely used indicator of young people's education and labour market status is the NEET category - 'not in education, employment or training'. Making comparisons with how France and Germany measure school leavers' progression and achievement, Hilary Steedman argues that NEET is no longer good enough.

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26 October 2011     Paper Number CEPCP349

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This CentrePiece article is published under the centre's Education programme.