educational opportunities inequality begins already before school age. Therefore equality can not only promote education by political means, but also family and social policy measures is relevant, recent research articles.
the results of the Study confirmed that school a negative September and a weak commitment to schooling are often connected to a home – and growth environment. The higher the parental education level and socio-economic status are, the more positive young attitude to schooling. Article published Friday, the social policy journal.
the Students were divided in three different groups according to how they commit to a school. Examined ninth-graders from the school positive was 29% and the school of negative 11%. In the third, i.e. the central group was 60% of the pupils.
school negative was both boys and girls about the same amount. The school is a positive one, instead, was more common among girls.
Young with low socio-economic family background, was a school negative about a fifth. In the other groups, the same share was about eight per cent.
the school of negative of young parents for more than a quarter had at most basic education qualification and less than a tenth of a degree. Instead, the school welcomed the parents of children almost one-third had a high school degree.
the resulting support varies among groups
according to the Article in different groups, differences also appear in how their parents pay attention to the offspring of their schooling.
school positive students, 86%, and school negative 60% found their parents to participate in school organized by parents ‘ evenings. School positive students, the vast majority reported their parents to control it, that the children take care of home tasks. School negative students this was half.
in the Article pointed out that the school negative child’s parents are not necessarily indifferent to their children to the school run smoothly. Parents can also address the necessary resources for school support.
one-Fifth of school negative, for example, said parents have a number of financial difficulties. School negative, you might also be missing from home for example, the desk that homework could have been done.
the school welcome parents of children on the economic problems was often only nine per cent.
the Future plans of large differences between
the Differences were also observed for young people’s future prospects. School positive more than three-quarters of the intends to continue to high school and less than a fifth of the vocational educational institution. School negative of young people in only one-fifth of the plans to continue in high school and nearly two-thirds of the vocational educational institution.
the school for the positive, only four percent could not say what you do after basic education. School negative attitude towards the in contrast, almost one in five could not say what continue. According to the article, these young people can be expected to have a greater risk end up completely neet.
the article says that the introduction of the youth guarantee has fallen slightly out of education percentage of young people from. However, the decrease has led to the fact that professional schools seek also such young people, whose motivation and capacities are on average weaker.
at the Same time in vocational schools is the pressure to add independent study I share, because resources have been reduced. This has in part led to education dropout growth.
in the Article assessment will be undertaken, that education funding cuts to promote the parliamentary summer 2017 approved by the vocational education legislation reform goals. One of the goals was the dropout rate reduction.
Article written by Markku vantta have , Piia af Ursin and Tero Järvinen . It is part of a Finnish Academy funded by the education and training systems the research project.
the Study is also part of the international International Study of City Youth -a longitudinal study. The article is used in the longitudinal study in 2014, collected in the Finnish survey material. The electronic questionnaire was answered by 1 058 ninth graders from twelve Turku sub-region secondary school.
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