Girls and boys and educational choice (summary)

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• By 2002, 80 % of girls received an education providing professional competence, compared with 70.5 % of boys.
• Of the remaining 20 %, 12 % of girls matriculated, while 8 % left the education system after 9th/10th grade. Among the remaining 29.5 % of boys, 8.7 % matriculated, while 20.8 % left the education system after 9th/10th grade. (Matriculation means that a student passed the matriculation examination and/or has begun vocational studies without interruption).
• After 9th/10th grade, 64.4 % of girls choose an upper secondary education and 46.7 % of boys. (46.9 % of girls versus 34.1 % of boys end their studies upon matriculating. 18.5 % of girls go on to vocational education following an interruption and 13.6 % of boys do the same. 4-5 % of both boys and girls transfer from vocational training to upper secondary education).
• Girls are almost equally likely to choose language and mathematics concentrations in general upper secondary schools, whereas boys overwhelmingly opt for math. This means that the math concentration has almost the same number of boys and girls, while 90 % of the students in language studies are girls and only 10 % are boys. More boys than girls choose technical schools, and more girls than boys choose business trade schools.
• 50.1 % of girls go on to pursuing higher education (KVU, MVU and LVU) compared with 35.1 % of boys.
• More boys than girls receive a technical/trade degree: 28.3 % among boys versus 8.5 % among girls.
• Girls are more likely than boys to earn a business school degree, at 11.9 % versus the boys' 6.5 %.

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Girls and boys and educational choice