At last night’s Scrutiny Committee, the Executive member for Children’s services revealed a shocking statistic.
Whilst he was discussing the current provision for post-16 year old pupils – at the various sixth form colleges and the Isle of Wight College – Cllr Jonathan Bacon highlighted the poor rates of progression to university.
He said,
“Students completing A-levels progressing to higher education were 27% on the Isle of Wight, 1% to a top third university. That compares nationally to 44% and and 9% respectively.
“This is something we could be doing better.”
Update 29.1.2015:
Thanks to OnTheWight contributor, Wendy Varley, it has been discovered that the 27% statistic quoted at the Scrutiny Meeting and in the consultation document is actually from 2011 applies to just College pupils.
Later stats (2012/13) reveal 49% of A-Level students going to higher education institution; 18% to top third institutions; 10% to Russell Group (not including Oxford & Cambridge); 1% Oxford or Cambridge.
Consultation
A proposal to carry out a consultation is expected to be agreed at next week’s Executive meeting.
Full details can be found in the paper embedded below for your convenience. Click on the full screen icon to see larger version.
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