Selective Secondary Education and Staying-on
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Northern Ireland is unique among the regions of the UK in still having an almost entirely selective secondary education system, where roughly one third of pupils attend grammar schools. This paper sets out to study whether attending a grammar school up to age 16 has any effect, ceteris paribus, on the transition of young people from compulsory schooling to further schooling, Further Education, employment or training. Such an effect might exist because of differences in school culture between grammar and other schools. Based on data collected in 1995 for almost 1000 young people in Northern Ireland, we estimate choice-based multinomial logit models for their first destination immediately after completion of compulsory schooling and one year on. The models include a standard set of explanatory variables including examination results at 16 and family background factors as well as a grammar school dummy. Other school variables include a co-ed status dummy, attendance rates, average exam success and a dummy for the presence of a 6 Form. We find that attending a grammar school up to age 16 increases the staying-on rate. Given that high staying-on rates are needed to achieve the Government’s qualification targets for 2002, we argue that policy makers should try to apply aspects of grammar school culture across all schools in order to increase our chances of meeting these targets.
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