Early Leavers What Next Department of Education and Skills CSO Administrative Data Seminar 20 th February 2014 1 Nicola Tickner Starting point The Department of Education and Skills took the initiative to explore the potential of data matching to fill current data gaps ID: 599675
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School Completers andEarly Leavers – What Next?Department of Education and SkillsCSO Administrative Data Seminar 20th February 2014
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Nicola TicknerSlide2
Starting pointThe Department of Education and Skills took the initiative to explore the potential of data matching to fill current data gaps following the publication of the National Statistics Board report entitled ‘The Irish Statistics System: The Way Forward and Joined Up Government Needs Joined Up Data’ in December 2011Undertaken an officer of statistics under the stats act, in the
CSOThe tracking was carried out using data matching and was also supplemented with estimations for other destinations for which individualised data was not available
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OverviewStarting Point – Pupils Enrolled on the Post Primary Pupil Database in the 2009/2010 academic year but not in the 2010/2011 academic year54,824 were School Completers (i.e. were enrolled in final year of LC in 2009/2010)7,713 were Early Leavers (i.e. left prior to final year of LC)Explored the potential of data matching to fill current data gaps (as an officer of statistics under the stats act, in the CSO)
Matched against other available data sources (CSOPPSN) Estimations also used where individualised data not available
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School Completers -Summary4Slide5
School Completers – Progression to Higher Education44% direct match with HEA Student Record SystemMore males (44.5%) than females (43.5%)Additional Estimates of 0.5% (non PPSN coverage)2.3% Non HEA Aided Institutions
3.6% Higher Education Abroad (mostly UK)Overall, 50.4% progressed directly to Higher Ed
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School Completers Who Progressed Directly to Higher Education(following information refers to HEA Aided Institutions Only)48.1% of those who pursued the traditional LC52.0% of those who repeated LC43.2% of those who pursued the LCVPOf those in Higher Ed, 41.6% had employment activity during 2010 (males 45.6%, females 37.5%)
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School Completers – Progression to PLC courses19.8% direct progression rateIncreasing, was 16.4% in 2001/200237.3% of School Completers who pursued the LCA21.9% of School Completers who pursued the LCVP17.5% of School Completers who pursued the LC
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Early Leavers - Summary10Slide11
Early Leavers - Summary (contd/…)11Slide12
Early Leavers – Time Series12Slide13
Early Leavers – Differences in Gender?Higher proportion of male Early Leavers enrol in PLC coursesHigher proportion of female Early Leavers enrol in FÁS coursesMore males than females in YouthreachMore males than females in Education or Training outside the State
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Early Leavers by Programme4,414 (57.2% )left before enrolment in year 1 of a LC programmeHigh proportion of Early Leavers who left after JC year 3 or TY estimated to be in Youthreach but also a sizeable amount who left after enrolment in LC year 1By programme, the most leavers for whom destination is unknown are for those who leave after first or second year of JC/JCSP (777)Particularly for females (520)
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Links to Reports http://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/School-Completers-What-Next-.pdfhttp://www.education.ie/en/Publications/Statistics/Early-Leavers-What-Next-.pdfPublished May 2013
Also some additional tables on website
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Future plansRepeat of exercise for following years cohortPossible expansion of the data depending on data sources available Exploration of the data presented to show the destinations of the School Completers after two years
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Current Position on Data SharingPutting a National Data Infrastructure in place is central to the Public Service Reform Plan. This would put in place an infrastructure to allow the efficient running of our public administration. The National Statistics Board has highlighted the importance of developing such an infrastructure (both national and regional) and has suggested that this would compromise of three key pillars, all with a unique identifier
people (PPSN), businesses
(unique business identifier) and buildings (postcode).
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Draft legislation is in place focusing on PPSN but also on the unique Health Identifier.Focus no longer on business identifier.Progress has been made on the implementation of postcodes (March 2015).Data Sharing would be greatly helped if facilitated by legislation.20Slide21
Comments or Questions?
Nicola_Tickner@education.gov.ie
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