Latest figures from Skills Development Scotland (SDS) make encouraging reading for schools and families across East Dunbartonshire as they show how 98.95% of young people leaving the area’s schools went onto positive destinations in 2021/22.
This performance is the best in Scotland and is East Dunbartonshire’s highest ever rate.
Students from the area’s eight secondary schools have traditionally gone onto positive destinations in their droves with East Dunbartonshire achieving top spot three times in the last five years and featuring in the top three, every year for the last 10 years.
This is great news for our young people and their families and what a boost to our teachers and school staff to see students leave and go onto the next positive stage in their lives.
“Our schools are focussed on helping all students follow their dreams and are delivering a curriculum that meets the needs of everyone, whatever they may be. In partnership with SDS they have provided routes and pathways for students that meet labour market needs and the result is cohorts of young people taking that first big step into the world after school on the road they have chosen.”
The statistics* around positive destinations as recorded by SDS for East Dunbartonshire are:
- 64.1% in Higher Education
- 17.1% in Further Education
- 15.5% in employment
- 1.3% in training
- 0.9% in voluntary work.
*Rounding makes the total 98.9%
