The class of 2003 : Promotion 2003 : enquête de suivi auprès des élèves du secondaire

Motivational or on the barriers identified in the Canada Millennium informational barriers are characterized either Scholarship Foundation’s 2002 and 2004 editions as a lack of motivation to pursue PSE or a lack of of The Price of Knowledge, this survey presents information about the importance, advantages new data on barriers relating to interest and moti- and cost of PSE. [...] Specifically, institution at the time of the survey but hoped to 45 per cent of respondents reporting a lack of interest do so in future faced more responsibility for finan- or motivation in attending a post-secondary program cing their own education than did youth proceed- decided on a post-secondary path after Grade 12, ing directly from high school to a post-secondary compared to 30 per cent of [...] The Class of 2003 are not directly comparable to Barriers to Post-Secondary education and Training One of the objectives of this research was to explore the reasons for non-participation in PSE among Informat onal/Mot vat onal. [...] Barriers to Persistence One of the benefits of The Class of 2003 research is The Class of 2003 research indicates some key that it allows a comparison of access barriers and differences between access barriers and persistence persistence barriers. [...] Thus, while the described as a key reason for youth not going on Youth in Transition Survey Cycle 3 indicated that only to PSE, most of the former high school students in approximately a quarter of students not originally The Class of 2003 had aspirations to enter a post- attending PSE in 1999 were in a PSE program by secondary program.