Department for Education publication Ref: DFE-RR165 by Andy Ross, Rosie Green, Vicky Brown, Kevin Pickering, Ingrid Schoon and Anna Vignoles
© The Centre for Analysis of Youth Transitions (CAYT) October 2011
Previous research and anecdotal evidence has suggested that offering a broader curriculum, and in particular, vocational qualifications, may be a way to motivate young people who have become disengaged from education and improve their subsequent attainment. However, this hypothesis has not been systematically evaluated.
The analyses summarised here explore the educational outcomes of disengaged young people from a nationally representative cohort who reported taking vocational courses in Year 10 compared to similarly disengaged young people who did not.
The study explored outcomes across a range of different subgroups of young people from the Longitudinal Study for Young People (LSYPE), defined using different characteristics of being disengaged in Year 9.
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Hazel’s comment:
You nearly didn't get this. Why, oh why, do government departments not make it easier to find and reference their publications? The DFE is particularly poor in this regard. I need more coffee!
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