The percentage of school leavers going to a 'positive destination' on leaving school
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Reference Establishment
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This dataset contains the percentage of school leavers going to a 'positive destination' on leaving school. Positive destinations include: higher education, further education, training, voluntary work, employment, activity agreements. More information on school leaver destinations is available here.
Data is for senior phase (S4-S6) leavers from publicly funded secondary and grant aided secondary schools. This includes a small number of pupils who are on the roll of the school but attend full-time courses or further education outside of the school.
Data is not provided for Junior High Schools as these schools generally only take pupils as far as S4, after which they transfer to another centre to continue their education.
The positive leaver destination measure on Parentzone Scotland uses data from Insight about school leavers, which is collected by Skills Development Scotland. Details about a leaver's destination are only included in the measure if a link can be made between the leaver's Skills Development Scotland destination record and a Pupil Census record with stage S4, S5 or S6 for the same academic year. In addition, the young person must not have a Pupil Census record in the following academic year in a senior phase stage (S4-S6).
For some data points, a special character is provided instead of a number. These have the meaning:
The presentation of school level data here ensures that individual children cannot be identified. Where data is missing from tables in this dataset, it has been omitted to preserve the confidentiality of individuals.
Using data for individual schools as league tables implies that the schools at the top of the table are the best in Scotland and those at the bottom, the worst. This is misleading because schools often operate in very different circumstances, such as different numbers of children with additional support needs, or different job opportunites for school leavers depending on location. The context of a school should be taken into account when considering how well a school is doing.
The best way to judge the performance of a school when using this dataset is to compare a school to its 'virtual comparator'. The 'virtu​al comparator' is a sample group of pupils from other parts of Scotland who have the same characteristics as the young people in the corresponding school. This is fairer than comparing one school directly with another.
A comprehensive glossary of terms associated with education can be found on the Parentzone Scotland website
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Reference Establishment
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/education/refEstablishment
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Reference Period
http://purl.org/linked-data/sdmx/2009/dimension#refPeriod
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School Comparator
http://statistics.gov.scot/def/dimension/comparator
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Measure Type
http://purl.org/linked-data/cube#measureType
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(not locked to a value) |
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The data in this dataset are stored in the graph: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/positive-destinations
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All other metadata about this dataset are stored in the graph: http://statistics.gov.scot/graph/positive-destinations/metadata
A breakdown by type of the 5,765 resources in this dataset's data graph.
| Resource type | Number of resources |
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| Collection | 4 |
| Component specification | 6 |
| Data set | 1 |
| Data structure definition | 1 |
| Observation | 5,753 |
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