The minimum age at which a young person may legally leave school.
〈英〉最低合法离校年龄
they recommended a raising of the school-leaving age to 16
Example sentencesExamples
Thus, despite the raising of the school-leaving age and the greater provision of post-16 and higher education, this has disproportionately benefited those from better-off families.
More middle-class than working-class children, for example, stay at school beyond the school-leaving age, and proceed to higher education.
Why does anyone after school-leaving age want to be bullied into following orders, even those that don't make sense?
On the same day that most of the country's school children are being evacuated, the school-leaving age goes up from 14 to 15.
The programme aims to encourage more students to stay in education beyond school-leaving age.
Then in 1959 the school-leaving age was raised from 14 to 16.
In this way school boards developed an integrated education which took children from infancy to school-leaving age.
This Budget funds a policy that, over the next few years, will see everyone of school-leaving age either moving into employment or moving into post-school education.
Although Mexico's legal school-leaving age is sixteen, indigenous women receive, on average, just over three years of schooling, compared to a national average of 7.3, thus suffering high rates of illiteracy.
Ideally, this should be started at school-leaving age, but it is never too late to begin and the efforts of each individual should be rewarded, even if not 100 per cent successful.
The school-leaving age was to be raised to 15 and there was free secondary education for all.
As many as 18% have already left full-time education by the time they reach school-leaving age.
He added: ‘We are calling for the law to be amended so that only people of school-leaving age can be engaged in work on a farm.’
Teenagers at school-leaving age who had been permanently excluded from school are among those who have benefited through an education initiative set up in Chessington.
Our approach is to have young performers study with us from the age of two until school-leaving age.
In 1968 he resigned as Leader of the Lords over the Government's refusal to raise the school-leaving age.
In 2000, the minimum school-leaving age was raised by one year to 16.
If the school-leaving age is lower than the age of admission to employment, children are likely to illegally seek employment, and the enforcement of child labour laws is rendered more difficult.
As Minister of Education in the 1945 Labour government, her greatest victory was the raising of the school-leaving age to 15, despite the shortage of buildings in war-damaged Britain and the need for 13,000 extra teachers.
When I started my formal education the official school-leaving age was 12.