Background to the survey of first destinations 2004.

An annual survey

Every year C.W.N.E. conducts a survey of the first destinations of leavers in years 11,12 and 13. The company

acknowledges the help of schools, colleges, parents and guardians, training agencies and others in the survey conducted, to collect this data.

  • Response to survey

Every effort is made to encourage a 100% response. As well as the traditional methods of phone calls and letters and the use of school lists to determine 6th form returners; company staff are very proactive in liaising with outreach workers etc. Inevitably however, there appears to be a group failing to respond and consequently their destinations are not known. (For year 11 leavers this represents 2.6% of the cohort)

Dynamics

The percentages are based on a snapshot at a given time and cannot reflect the dynamics of the Education, Training and Labour markets.

Geographical area of the survey

The Careers Wales North East Company Area covers the Unitary Authorities of Flintshire and Wrexham but only the Southern part of Denbighshire.

The table below gives a breakdown of where the 4230 students went.

Year 11 (Cohort 4230)

Year 11 /

Male

/

Female

Number / Percentage / Number / Percentage / Number / Percentage
Total Cohort / 4230
F/T Education / 3072 / 72.6 / 1463 / 67.6 / 1609 / 77.8
Employed / 400 / 9.5 / 255 / 11.8 / 145 / 7.0
WBT Employed Status / 138 / 3.3 / 87 / 4.0 / 51 / 2.5
WBT Non Employed Status / 126 / 3.0 / 86 / 4.0 / 40 / 1.9
NEET* - registered / 220 / 5.2 / 126 / 5.8 / 94 / 4.5
NEET* - not registered / 11 / 0.3 / 8 / 0.4 / 3 / 0.1
Unable to enter EET / 31 / 0.7 / 10 / 0.5 / 21 / 1.0
Moved from Area / 123 / 2.9 / 67 / 3.1 / 56 / 2.7
No response / 109 / 2.6 / 61 / 2.8 / 48 / 2.3
Total - to equal cohort / 4230 / 100.0 / 2163 / 100.0 / 2067 / 100.0

*NEET = Not in Education Training or Employment.

Points of interest.

Staying in Education.

The proportion engaging in full time education is 72.6% and this reflects the pleasing fact that well over two thirds of the cohort choose to stay in full time education. There has been an increase from last year when the figure was 68%. There still remains a significant gender bias in this choice however, the number of males electing for this option is 67.6% but the number of females is 77.8%.

Going into work

There is still a proportion of year eleven leavers who opt to go directly into employment, in total, this represents 9.5% of the cohort. In terms of the gender split there is the reverse situation in this option (in contrast to the education choice) - more males than females. The proportion of males is 11.8% and females 7.0%.

  • It is sometimes assumed that those going into jobs outside work based training mainly enter production/ manufacturing work. However of the 400 going into employment 84 (21% of those entering into employment) went to this type of work. 62 (15.5%) went into sales/retail, 59 (14.75%) into construction, 37 (9.25%) into catering and food related, 19 (4.75%) into clerical and 19 (4.75%) into motor vehicle related work.
Going into work based training

Work based training provides a destination for 6.3% of the cohort and this is divided almost equally between Employed status training and non Employed status (3.3% and 3.0% respectively).

  • The routes entered by those going into Work Based Training Employed Status is reflected by the following: 21 of the 138 (15.2%) went into hairdressing, and allied trades, 17 (12.3%) went into aerospace engineering , 13 (9.4%) went into general engineering not including motor vehicle, 13 (9.4%) went into clerical/office work and 10 (7.2%) went into electrical work.

The total work picture

When we combine the totals going into the “world of work” which includes Employment and Work Based Training there are approx 16% electing for this option. This is slightly down on the 20% for 2003 leavers. It is not possible to determine from the nature of this survey whether this is due to the fact that the local economy (work opportunities for school leavers anyway) may be slightly less buoyant than in 2003 or whether factors like the Education Maintenance Allowance has significance.

The table below gives a breakdown of where the 1374 students went.

Year 12 Cohort (1374)

Year 12 /

Male

/

Female

Number / Percentage / Number / Percentage / Number / Percentage
Total Cohort / 1374 / 643 / 731
F/T Education / 1082 / 78.7 / 489 / 76.0 / 593 / 81.1
Employed / 129 / 9.4 / 66 / 10.3 / 63 / 8.6
WBT Employed Status / 30 / 2.2 / 12 / 1.9 / 18 / 2.5
WBT Non Employed Status / 16 / 1.2 / 10 / 1.6 / 6 / 0.8
NEET* - registered / 20 / 1.5 / 14 / 2.2 / 6 / 0.8
NEET* - not registered / 3 / 0.2 / 3 / 0.5 / 0 / 0.0
Unable to enter EET / 4 / 0.3 / 1 / 0.2 / 3 / 0.4
Moved from Area / 31 / 2.3 / 11 / 1.7 / 20 / 2.7
No response / 59 / 4.3 / 37 / 5.8 / 22 / 3.0
Total - to equal cohort / 1374 / 100.0 / 643 / 100.0 / 731 / 100.0

*NEET = Not in Education Training or Employment.

Points of interest.

Staying in Education
  • The proportion staying in full time education is 78.7%, in 2003 the figure was 82.2%.
  • As with year 11 leavers there is a slight gender difference 76.0% of males and 81.1% of females remain in education.
Going into work
  • Of those young people entering the world of work, 175 (129+30+16) in total, 30 went into Employed Status Training and 16 went into Training with Trainee Status. This means that of those leaving year 12 for the “world of work” 73.7% of this group went to employment and only 26.2% into Work Based Training.
  • It needs to be appreciated that there is a 4.3% “non response” to the year 12 survey this year and this will inevitably modify any conclusions stated above. (This 4.3% is greater than the 3.4% known to have entered Work Based Training for example!)

The table below gives a breakdown of where the 1047 students went.

Year 13 Cohort ( 1047)

Year 13 /

Male

/

Female

Number / Percentage / Number / Percentage / Number / Percentage
Total Cohort / 1047 / 459 / 588
F/T Education / 724 / 69.1 / 298 / 64.9 / 426 / 72.4
Employed / 158 / 15.1 / 76 / 16.6 / 82 / 13.9
WBT Employed Status / 20 / 1.9 / 15 / 3.3 / 5 / 0.9
WBT Non Employed Status / 1 / 0.1 / 1 / 0.2 / 0 / 0.0
NEET* - registered / 6 / 0.6 / 4 / 0.9 / 2 / 0.3
NEET* - not registered / 4 / 0.4 / 0 / 0.0 / 4 / 0.7
Unable to enter EET / 47 / 4.5 / 18 / 3.9 / 29 / 4.9
Moved from Area / 17 / 1.6 / 10 / 2.2 / 7 / 1.2
No response / 70 / 6.7 / 37 / 8.1 / 33 / 5.6
Total - to equal cohort / 1047 / 100.0 / 459 / 100.0 / 588 / 100.0

*NEET = Not in Education Training or Employment.

Points of interest.

Staying in education

  • 69.1% of Year 13 Leavers continued in full time education.
  • There continues to be a gender difference at this stage too 64.9% male and 72.4% female electing for the education option.
Going into work
  • 15.1 percent of clients entered employment outside work based training. (16.6%male and 13.9% female.)
Going into training
  • Only a small percentage of the cohort left education and went into work based training (2.0%) . 20 people entering work with employed status training and 1 person entering work with trainee status.
Failing to respond
  • As with year 12, it needs to be appreciated that there is a 6.7%“ non response” to the year 13 survey this year and this will inevitably modify any conclusions stated above.