Gütersloh/Magdeburg (dpa/sa) - Saxony-Anhalt is the federal state with the second-highest rate of young people who finish school without at least earning a secondary school leaving certificate. This emerges from an evaluation commissioned by the Bertelsmann Foundation. According to this, 1671 young people did not graduate in Saxony-Anhalt in 2021. That was 9.6 percent of the country's population of the same age. Although the rate is lower than it was ten years ago (it was 12.1 percent in 2011), it is only higher in Bremen (10 percent). Nationwide, the proportion was 6.2 percent. It is lowest in Bavaria (5.1 percent).
At the end of their school career, boys are more likely to have no qualifications than girls. Foreigners are disproportionately affected. "Every young person without a school-leaving certificate is one too many," said education researcher Klaus Klemm, one of the authors of the study. "In view of the growing shortage of skilled workers, our society cannot afford to let these people fall through the cracks."
