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Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.To identify and measure the major concomitants of early leaving, voluntary staying or transfer to technical college among 15 year olds. It compared teachers, parents and pupils in their perceptions of the aims of education and the interests of adolescents. The survey concentrated on pupils in their final year of compulsory education; their schools, parents, and teachers. The sampled data included parental attitudes to education, teachers' opinions on the curricula, resources and training requirements for Rosla, pupil attitudes to school, interests, evaluation of school objectives, abilities and attainments, rated educational behaviour, and home circumstances.Main Topics:Variables 1. Schools (completed by the principal) Number of boys/girls on current roll for 5th and 6th form, number of full-time staff (age and sex structure), number of teachers who left this year, number of full-time vacancies for male/female teachers, number of career teachers, number of school counsellors, number of remedial/special teachers. Follow-up of last year's leavers, cumulative record card for each pupil, information held on card, percentage of pupils receiving remedial education, organisation of remedial classes/ability ranges/required subjects and chosen options. External remedial classes/ability ranges/required subjects and chosen options. External examinations, percentage of fifth years taking GCE and CSE, timing of decision about pupil's ability to sit for external examinations. Regular meetings of staff/parents' association, provision for pupil participation, school prefects (how chosen), number of pupils receiving free/reduced price meals, proportion of pupils' fathers in various occupational categories/unemployed. School facilities, equipment and clubs. 2. Pupils Subjects found interesting or useful, reasons for finding some subjects boring, whether wished to do better. Respondents asked to agree or...