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You’ll finish your statutory education at the end of Year 11, but it shouldn’t mean the end of learning! There are lots of ways to carry on learning through education or work – it’s a great way to get your career off to a flying start!
The September Guarantee means that everyone leaving education in Year 11 has an offer of an appropriate post-16 course, your Personal Adviser will be able to give you information and advice on the options.
Here's what you can do at 16?
- stay in education at school or college
- go into work-based learning and employment
- go into jobs without training.
| Here is what happened to last year’s Year 11 school leavers in Manchester: | |
|---|---|
| Continued in full time education | 79.9% |
| Full time training | 3.2% |
| Full time employment with training | 1.8% |
| Jobs without training | 3.5% |
| Voluntary and part time activities | 1.1% |
| Not in education, employment or training | 7.2% |
| Others | 3.3% |
Over 84% of Manchester youngsters were doing something that gave them the chance to get recognised qualifications, through further study or training.
Here’s what you can consider doing
Stay in education
By going to college or into the sixth form if your school has one, or to another school with a sixth form. There’s plenty of choice locally! What you’ll do there will depend on the qualifications you get in Year 11, it could include
- Advanced Subsidiary (AS) leading to A Levels
- BTEC or similar qualifications
- One of the new Diploma courses at Advanced Level
- International Baccalaureate
- Additional or resit GCSEs – usually this means re-sitting essential subjects like English or maths, or where you just missed getting a grade "C".
It’s possible to mix and match what you do by taking some subjects you might have studied previously at GCSE with new ones such as law, economics or philosophy.
To make sure you get it right you’ll need to:
- Find out what's on offer and whether you'd like it by visiting the colleges, see our list of Colleges Open Days
- Use the Manchester on-line prospectus
- Talk to your Personal Adviser.
Go for Learning at work
This includes:
- Apprenticeships where you’ll have the chance to train for a NVQ (National Vocational Qualification) in a particular job and learn key skills and
- Any job where the company offers training that leads to recognised qualifications like NVQs.
Jobs without training
This isn’t a good choice, though at 16 it might appear different, especially if the pay’s good. Without training you might find your chances of getting on more difficult. If you're in a job that isn't offering you training you could ask your Personal Adviser about the Learning Agreement Pilot (LAP). If you haven’t got Level 2 qualifications ask about Time off for Study and Training (Tfst)
cnx2 your future
cnx2 your future from Connexions explains to you the options and choices you need to make during Year 11. Ask your careers teacher or Personal Adviser for a copy.
Also look at Its Your Choice. You can download a PDF file.
You can use the library in your Connexions Centre too as it has information for you to read or take away. Visit Education Weblinx for more useful websites.