School dropout or interrupted learning

Early Leaving from Education and Training (ELET)

Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)

School dropout School dropout Rate (age 5-16)Rate (age 5-16)

Early School Early School Living Rate (age Living Rate (age

18-24)18-24)

ΝΕΕΤ (ΝΕΕΤ (Not in Not in Education,EmploymeEducation,Employment or Training) (16-nt or Training) (16-29)29)

The European Commission and many EU Member States use different ways to describe the phenomenon of Early School Leaving (ESL)

In educational terminology “school dropout” refers to young people who have only lower secondary education or less and are no longer in education or training

In European Union (Eurostat, 2013)

Average rate of school dropout is 12.7%

Greece ranks 11th among the 27 EU member states with dropout rate of 11.4%

According to gender

13.7%

9.1%

The goal for 2020 is to establish the rate at 9.7% according to commitments undertaken by Greece in the framework of the "Europe 2020".

SCHOOL YEAR 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016

STARTED TO STUDIE 684 752 731

REPEAT THE CLASS 85 77 96

DROPOUT 12,43% 10,24% 13,13%

80%

20%

2013 - 2014

BOYS GIRLS

72,75%

27,27%

2014 - 2015

BOYS GIRLS

78,10%

21,88%

2015 - 2016

BOYS GIRLS

Is triggered by unemployment, social exclusion and poverty, combined mainly with:personal or family problems, learning difficulties, fragile socio-economic situation,the way the education system is set up

the environment in individual schools poor relationships with teachers lack of social and academic support in school classes are not interesting; felt unchallenged

Increases phenomena like:child labor and black laborjuvenile delinquencysocial exclusionlabor exploitation unemployment

Providing opportunities for students to experience success

Expressing high expectations to students Building relationships with students Creating a family-like classroom

atmosphere Making the curriculum relevantto students’ lives

State institutions and community should join forces to develop a strong social network towards vulnerable and high risk groups in education to avoid early school dropout