Peter Murrell arrested

96 % That is ninety six percent of school leavers age 16 go into further education,apprenticeships or work .I dont think thats a bad figure at all .The education system as I see it ,through my teenage grandchildren appears to work well .
Much better I might say than when my daughter ,now 45,was at school when her dyslexia was ignored then denied for years until she was in 3rd year in High School .
I'm assuming the number in England is 100% by the way the Scottish system is dismissed as useless.
My own 16 year old GD left school with a job to go to that will train her ,plus she volunteers with mentally and physically disabled adults and has for some time .I'm happy she has found what she wants to do ,university isn't for everyone .

paddyann54

96 % That is ninety six percent of school leavers age 16 go into further education,apprenticeships or work .I dont think thats a bad figure at all .The education system as I see it ,through my teenage grandchildren appears to work well .
Much better I might say than when my daughter ,now 45,was at school when her dyslexia was ignored then denied for years until she was in 3rd year in High School .
I'm assuming the number in England is 100% by the way the Scottish system is dismissed as useless.
My own 16 year old GD left school with a job to go to that will train her ,plus she volunteers with mentally and physically disabled adults and has for some time .I'm happy she has found what she wants to do ,university isn't for everyone .

England
You can leave school on the last Friday in June if you’ll be 16 by the end of the summer holidays
You must then do one of the following until you’re 18:
stay in full-time education, for example at a college
start an apprenticeship or traineeship
spend 20 hours or more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

Scotland
If you turn 16 between 1 March and 30 September you can leave school after 31 May of that year.
If you turn 16 between 1 October and the end of February you can leave at the start of the Christmas holidays in that school year.

Wales
You can leave school on the last Friday in June, as long as you’ll be 16 by the end of that school year’s summer holidays

If you are a child who lives on the border you could live in one country of the UK and go to school in another so I wonder which rules apply then?

Just in case anybody thought that the MSM media are printing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Parsley3 arrested then let go another misguided arrest

multicolouredswapshop what makes you think it's over? It's only just begun..

I agree. Charges may or may not follow. I think mcss is looking at this through rose-tinted specs. Don’t you realise, mcss, that arresting someone suspected of criminal activity can be a strategic move in gathering evidence, although there’s a limit to the time they can be held without charge following which they can be recalled?

volver3

Just in case anybody thought that the MSM media are printing the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Not according to the BBC 🤣

The Scotsman is not the BBC.

HTH

volver3

The Scotsman is not the BBC.

HTH

Really who would have thought that 🤣🤣🤣

Just because a Scottish paper misnamed the Scottish Curling Team, doesn’t mean all MSM has/will volver3

Mentioned it to DH. Freudian, he reckons. I think he's right.

It's the SCOTSMAN. If they can get this wrong, what else are they getting wrong...?

I think you've got more than that to worry about Volver.

I think an unreliable press is something to worry about.

Maybe it's just me.

Email The Scotsman, get on the letters page.
Disgruntled from Dundee.😄

Wasn’t just some of the media. The World Curling Organisation should know this stuff, but…