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Concept selected: Compulsory Secondary Education (GCSE)

Definition

Seeks to provide all students the basic elements of culture, train them to assume their duties and exercise their rights, develop and consolidate study and work habits, and prepare them for more advanced studies and for employment. It completes basic education and covers four academic years, between twelve and sixteen years of age. It is taught by areas of knowledge. The student who, at the end of this stage, achieves the objectives, will receive the title of Graduate in Compulsory Secondary Education. This makes them elegible to pursue the General Certificate of Education and specific intermediate vocational training. In any case, the student receives an accreditation from the educational centre, which shows the years studied and the grades obtained in the different areas.

Source

Survey on the Transition from Education/Training to Labour Market Insertion.Methodology

Topic

Statistical operations

(links to the Inventory of Statistical Operations)

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