Abstract
ABSTRACT A unique series of surveys of school leavers in Scotland (1952-98) is used to investigate long-term developments in the transition of young people from school. Transitions changed greatly in the half century, and varied by sex and socio-economic status. School attainment became increasingly important in giving school leavers access to post-school education, especially for female students and for students of low socio-economic status (SES). For low-SES and medium-SES students of both sexes, attainment also was important in gaining access to employment throughout the period. There was no evidence that the ending of selection into different kinds of secondary school had any immediate effect on transitions to education, training, or employment. However, there was evidence that reform to the school curriculum in the 1980s may have increased the proportions entering employment with or without training among low-SES students with relatively high attainment. At the same time, leavers with low attainment in that core curriculum benefited from the development of short, specifically vocational courses, though to a decreasing extent in the 1990s. Leavers who did not follow any such courses, and who had no core attainment, continued to face very difficult transitions.
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