VOICES OF YOUTH
SURVEY ON YOUTH IN B IH
Quantitative R esear ch Findings
compared to 76.3% in 2008); yet it was far more common for those belonging to vulnerable groups to repeat a grade (15.9%) when compared to the general population (6.5%). These results indicate that the existing curricula are adjusted to the abilities of the majority of pupils/students and thus insufficiently adjusted to meet the needs of pupils/students belonging to vulnerable groups. When asked to consider the extent to which their acquired education could help them to gain employment in the future most respondents believed that it may to some extend be a mitigating factor (67.1%), which suggests optimism in this matter. However, a relatively high percentage of young people, approximately one-third of respondents, did not express such optimism. This absence of optimism could be one explanation for the lack of interest reported by a certain number of respondents in completing their education. The 2008 respondents stated much more frequently that their acquired education would help them a great deal in finding a job, when compared to the respondents participating in the new wave research. Respondents belonging to vulnerable groups far more frequently selected the answers ‘“Not at all” or ‘Insignificantly’, relative to general population respondents who far more often selected the answers ‘To some extent’ or ‘To a large extent’ (see Graphs 1 and 2).
Graph 1: To what extent will the education that you acquired or will soon acquire enable you to get a job in the future in the field of your obtained education? (Comparison between 2008 and 2011/2012)
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