Teenagers At Risk Of Dropping Out Of School
Posted in College University on August 26th, 2011 by TommyThere is a risk at having GCSE students being lost to the education because of a unique set of pressures. Reasons like cuts to careers advice, the EMA support grant in England and fears over university fees would lead to many teenagers that are currently in school to opt out of it after their results would be posted. Pupils would be hard to persuade to stay because of the reasons even with the government saying that leaving school should not be done if they are unable to work or study further. They are still stating that there is good news out of this though as students studied hard for the exams and will surely show good sets of results this year.
There are still pressing concerns though as to facing the unprecedented challenges that these teenagers are facing as they hear a lot of messages about difficulty of accessing university places, higher tuition fees and youth unemployment. Not only that, EMA or Education Maintenance Allowance, Aim Higher and face-to-face careers guidance has been cutback.
There have been official figures that were released the one in five students that can be counted as to nearly a million you people between 16 to 24 are labeled as NEET or not in education, employment or training. Convincing them to stay in education or training as the right thing to do is a very big challenge as a lot of them are now opting to drop out of going for very basic jobs. Although a lot of them want to aim high, they are thinking twice about it if it is worth doing. They need career advice on the wide range of options they can do and if it is not given to them, these confused 16 year olds that had just completed their GCSEs could easily become confused and disheartened.
What happens to our next generation we may not know until the results come in or until they decide to work and not continue their education? Hoping for the best is all we can do as we await what our government will do next for us.