Early school-leaver
Term
Early school-leaver
Definition
Early school-leavers are individuals below the statutory school-leaving age who have withdrawn from or left an education or training programme without completing it.
Comment
In an EU context this term has a specific technical meaning. The early school-leaving rate is defined by the proportion of the population aged 18-24 with only lower secondary education or less and no longer in education or training. Early school-leavers are therefore those who have only achieved pre-primary, primary, lower secondary or a short upper secondary education of less than 2 years (ISCED 0, 1, 2 or 3c short), and include those who have only a pre-vocational or vocational education which did not lead to an upper secondary certification.
Early school-leaver needs to be distinguished from drop-out which is a more general term.
Source
EU Council Recommendation on Early School Leaving (2011). Official Journal of the European Union. Available from Internet: http://ec.europa.eu/education/school-education/doc/earlyrec_en.pdf
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ELGPN Glossary, drop-out, early school leaving, young people
Drop-out
Term
Drop-out
Definition
A drop-out is anyone who has withdrawn from an education or training programme without completing it.
Comment
Drop-out is a more general term and should be distinguished from ‘early school leaver’ which has a specific meaning in an EU context. See separate definition.
Source
Cedefop (2008a). European Training Thesaurus. Luxembourg: Publications Office. Available from Internet: http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/3049_en.pdf
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Links
http://www.cedefop.europa.eu/EN/Files/3049_en.pdf
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ELGPN Glossary, early school leaving, drop-out