From Leaving CertiFiCate to Leaving SChooL a Longitudinal Study ...

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From Leaving Certificate to Leaving School
Figure 6.4: Proportion planning to enter apprenticeship and PLC
courses by social background and gender
40
35
30
%
25
20
15
10
5
Males-Appr.
Females-PLC
0
Professional Non-man./farmer Skilled manual Semi/unskilled Nonemployed
attending mixed or middle-class schools (Figure 6.6). However, there is
some variation around this pattern, with over half of the girls attending
Barrack Street, a working-class girls’ school, intending to go on to college.
There is no clear demarcation between mixed and middle-class
schools, with Belmore Street (a girls’ school) and Wattle Street (a boys’
school) having comparable levels of aspirations to students in the more
middle-class schools, Fig Lane and Harris Street.
Figure 6.5: Proportion planning to go to higher education by social
class background
90
80
70
60
%
50
40
Incl. gap year
Higher education
30
20
10
0
Higher prof.
Lower prof.
Other nonmanual
Farmer
Skilled manual
Semi/unskilled
Nonemployed