Number without qualifications falls as Welsh performance figures rise

A report by the Local Government Data Unit Wales on councils’ performance shows that in 2012/13, for the seventh successive academic year, there has been a fall in the percentage of students leaving school with no qualifications.

Last year, 0.4 per cent of all children leaving compulsory education aged 15 or 16 who did not go on to full-time education, training or work-based learning did so without a recognised qualification. In 2005/06, that figure stood at 

2.3 per cent. 

For children in care, 5.7 per cent of children left without a recognised qualification compared to 3.5 per cent in 2011/12.

Over the same period, the percentage of pupils assessed at the end of key stage 3 achieving the Core Subject Indicator increased from 68.1 to 72.7 per cent. This ranged from 83 per cent in Gwynedd to 61.5 per cent in Blaenau Gwent.