RESEARCH ON THE FACTORS LEADING TO EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING

The consequences of early school leaving affect people throughout their entire lives by increasing their risk of unemployment, poverty, and social exclusion, including through reducing their children’s chances of succeeding at school. In the specialized literature, there are several explanatory mechanisms for early school leaving phenomenon, and the factors that influence it are distributed in different orders or on different priority levels. In this paper, we present an analysis of the factors leading to early leaving from vocational education and training, based on two types of research, background research, and through questionnaires, conducted within an Erasmus+ project, in six European countries. In spite of different educational systems, the factors leading to early school leaving do not vary that much from country to country. Some factors sometimes have almost similar values and preferences, and sometimes they differ, less or more, even till the situation they are opposite, from a participating country to another.