From primary and secondary education to continued education
How many students go directly from primary and lower secondary school to upper secondary education? How many students continue their education immediately after completing an upper secondary programme - and how many take a sabbatical? The statistics are a longitudinal analysis that tracks student year groups year by year from they finish primary and lower secondary school and complete an upper secondary programme through their educational pathways.
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Preparatory programme with an emphasis on general education subjects. The overall aim of primary and lower secondary education is to provide students with knowledge that prepares them for further education. The programme consists of 10 years of compulsory schooling from year 0 (pre-school) to year 9 and an optional year 10.
Primary and upper secondary schools can be run publicly as well as privately. There are different types, the most common being Public Basic Schools (Folkeskoler), Private Basic Schools (Frie grundskoler), Boarding Schools (Efterskoler), Special Schools (Specialskoler), Schools for maladjusted children (Dagbehandlingscentre and behandlingshjem), as well as Youth Schools (Ungdomsskoler).
University-qualifying education, i.e. provides access to higher education.
A professional education which gives the student a vocational qualification. A vocational education typically consists of a basic course and a main course, which both varies in content and length. The typical length of a vocational education is 4 years. Examples of vocational educations are bricklayer, carpenter and electrician.
Higher education is based on upper secondary education or vocational education. Higher education covers short, medium, bachelor and long cycle higher education as well as Ph.D. education.
Selected statistics on From primary and secondary education to continued education
From primary and lower secondary school to upper secondary education
The Integrated Register of Students. More information on this register can be found at: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/declarations/the-student-registre
Choice of upper secondary programme
The Integrated Register of Students. More information on this register can be found at: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/declarations/the-student-registre
Students' commencement of further education
The Integrated Register of Students. More information on this register can be found at: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/declarations/the-student-registre
Upper secondary school leavers' further educational pathways
The Integrated Register of Students. More information on this register can be found at: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/declarations/the-student-registre
Men and women's choice of education
The Integrated Register of Students. More information on this register can be found at: https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/dokumentation/declarations/the-student-registre
On the statistics – documentation, sources and method
See the documentation of statistics to learn more:
The analysis is a cohort analysis of students with lower or upper secondary general school leaving certificate and their further education in the Danish school system. (Adult education is not included). The present statistic which is based on CPR numbers, was first collected in 1973. Before 1973 the Ministry of Education collected the information at class level. The first cohort analysis was published in March 1978 with information regarding pupils who graduated in 1973/1974.
The purpose of The Education Transition Register is to give a fundament for describing transitions through the education system beside the one there are in The Student Register. In The Education Transition Register there is a number of simple counts of movements in the education system, ex the number of time a student change education within the same group of education and completion time.