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1. Early dropout

2. What does „dropping out”mean?
Dropping out means leaving a school, college, university or group
for practical reasons, necessities, or due to disillusionment with the
system from which the individual in question leaves.

3. What's the problem?
Giving up learnig is seldom an easy and quick decision taken
by young people. Early dropout is usually the result of a
whole process of giving up learning due to personal, social,
economic, geographic, educational and family reasons.

4. Who is most at risk?
It is most probable that those who finish their education early are:
 people from poor families and neglected background;
 children from families with economic problems and low
education level;
 immigrants’ children;
 representatives of minorities;
 pupils with special education needs
 pupils from vocational schools;
 children from rural areas.

5. Early dropout in EU
Every sixth young person aged 18 to 24 in EU-27 still leaves school
with no more than lower secondary education and participates in
no kind of education or training after this point. Young people who
leave school with only lower secondary education are at a
disadvantage on the labour market in today’s knowledge-based
society. Their personal and social development is in danger of
being curtailed and they are at risk of a life of poverty and social
exclusion. They are also less likely to participate in lifelong
learning than other young people who continue their education
and training.

6. Early dropout in EU

7. Early dropout in EU
In 2013 on average 12% of young people aged between 18 and
24 finished their education on the level lower than junior high
and they did not participate in any kind of vocational
education. The statistics indicate that in this group thare are
more young men than women, immigrants’ children and
members of minority groups. Pupils from vocational schools
drop out more frequently.
The scale of the early school leaving age phenomenon is
different in different member states. According to the data
from the Eurostat research in 2013 (see chart no 1) in countries
such as: Croatia, Slovenia, The Czech Republic or Slovakia the
percentage of pupils who leave schools early is not high and
oscillates at 4-5%. In other countries the scale of this problem is
really serious. In Portugal and Malta the percentage is at 20 %
and in Spain even 26%. The highest level of ELET is observed in
Turkey –over 37%.

8. How does EU monitor early school
leaving age?
Most countries monitor the phenomenon of early school leaving
age making use of the data gathered by Eurostat Labour Force
Survey and pupils’ database. Only some countries carry out
specially designed and regularly carried out research
concerning pupils who give up their education. Such analyses
are carried out in France, Malta, Slovenia or in Great Britain.

9. How does EU solve the problem?
Controlling the phenomenon of early school leaving age has
become one of the most important aims of the European Union.
Europe Strategy 2020 issued by the European Committee
assumes that the percentage of pupils in the EU who leave
school early will fall to 10 % by 2010.
At the same time the recommendation of the European Council
in 2011 obliged the member states to create national strategies
which will limit early school leaving.

10. How does EU solve the problem?
Many countries give priority to increasing the quality of vocational
training and making it more attractive. At present most European
countries including Poland introduce system changes in scope of
vocational education:
 Individual approach to the pupils;
 Making education more attractive and flexible;
 Adapting vocational schools offer to the situation on the labour
market;
 Introducing shorter courses for adults.

11. What has been done so far?
In spite of the European Council recommendation only 1/3 of
the EU members prepared complex strategies to limit early
school dropout: Belgium, Bulgaria, Spain, Malta, the
Netherlands, and Austria. Two other states: Hungary and
Romania at present undergo a process of preparing and
introducing such complex strategies at the country level. In
most other countries of the EU different programmes are being
introduced .

12. Early dropout in Poland
It is generally assumed that school dropout is not much of a
problem in Poland. According to Eurostat, the rate of early school
leaving is only 5.5%, which means that only a small proportion of
young people aged 18-24 have not obtained an upper secondary
qualification. Rapid and wide expansion of education at the
secondary and tertiary levels suggest that the quality of Polish
education is high and so is its effectiveness.

13. Early dropout in Poland
Types of school dropout in Poland:
 Natural school dropouts: those who fall victim to natural
causes such as death, accidents, suicide, etc
 Apparent school dropouts: students who move to another city,
country or type of school
 Actual school dropouts: students who enter the system and not
finish the school
 Potential school dropouts: pupils who are in the system, but
are more or less likely to exit school before planned time.

14. How is the problem solved in Poland?
Prevention of school dropout is not a priority for Polish
government, but there are some institutional mechanisms to assist
students at risk:
 job-training schools,
 Youth Work Services
 state education centers

15. How is the problem solved in Poland?
The main ones are special job-training schools, which are school-
based preparatory units for the least skilled students, who are not
able to meet scecondary school expectations, but are trained in
simple-skilled occupations and are able to enter the labour
market.

16. How is the problem solved in Poland?
Youth Work Services is a state organisational unit of the public
finances sector and is supervised by Minister of Family, Labour and
Social Policy. It cooperates with units of territorial self-government in
educating, training and employing young peple. YWS concentrates in
particular on education and rehabilitation, as well as providing help
to youth at risk of unemployment, socially maladjusted and requiring
special care and influence.

17. How is the problem solved in Poland?
State education centers – their main task is to provide
psychological and pedagogical counselling services and supporting
young people who dont’t get well at school.

18. THANK YOU FOR
ATTENTION 
Made by Magdalena Kamińska
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19. Bibliography
 Richard Teese, Stephen Lamb, Eifred Markussen, Nina
Sandberg, John Polesel, Piotr Mikiewicz – „SCHOOL
DROPOUT AND COMPLETION: INTERNATIONAL COMPARATIVE
STUDIES IN THEORY AND POLICY”
 WIKIPEDIA.COM
 STOP-DROPOUT.EU