Hard Money Loans

Montreal, Quebec, Canada (AHN) – Almost 40 percent of Quebec male high school students are dropping out of the educational system. In worst cases, such as at Pierre-Dupuy, the dropout rate is almost 80 percent.

Pierre-Dupuy Principal Ginette Rioux explained the unusually high rate of male dropouts in their school to having students with developmental delays and autism, students who opt to study trades and high poverty levels which forces some students to find employment instead.

Many of the students drop out when they reached Secondary Two and Three, which coincides with them turning 16 and making them employable.

The results are not surprising since a survey of 5,000 high school students found out that at age 12 or 13 when the students enter high school, the academic performance and career aspirations of male students are much lower than females.

The alarming data came after the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released a study last week that pushed governments to expand tertiary education to increase job creation and tax revenues.

OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurria said improvement should not be based on national, but global standards for countries to succeed.

Gurria said in a statement, “With the worldwide recession continuing to weigh on employment levels, education is an essential investment for responding to the changes in technology and demographics that are reshaping labor markets.”

Gurria pointed out the recent global crisis emphasized the value of education since the worst hit groups were young people with low levels of education. From 2008 to 2009, unemployment rates for that group of people went up by about five percent across OECD nations. In contrast, unemployment rate for people with tertiary degrees for the same years was less than two percent.

View full post on Labor Stories