A young person who is about to leave or has just left school.
〈英〉离校生；辍学生；中学毕业生
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In my opinion, this will enormously enhance our trade in the entire region and would prove highly favourable to future generations of school-leavers in particular.
The vibrant teenager would not stop there: ‘Opportunities for school-leavers are too few.’
He added that the goal was not to make everyone a scientist but rather to ensure basic literacy in the language of science among all school-leavers and graduates.
It is evident that school-leavers who haven't learnt to think for themselves are going to be in trouble.
While it is true that the proportion of school-leavers who enter higher education now is closer to 50% than the figure under 10% when Lord Patten was at Oxford, the issue of class distinction clearly remains unresolved.
The coming years will see a fall-off in the number of young people leaving the education system and more school-leavers will enter third level education.
But changes in the postwar economy gave a generation of school-leavers previously unthinkable buying power: money that was soon being spent on clothes and rock 'n' roll records.
They should remember that every employee of pensionable age may be doing work that a school-leaver could be doing.
A school-leaver at 15, he took on odd jobs at the local theatre and got an inkling of what was required to succeed.
Maybe it's that childlike quality again, but she seems winningly vague about the future, a bit like a school-leaver who may or may not take a year out before college but isn't motivated enough to sort out anything concrete.
This week saw the launch of a new glossy magazine for 15-18 year olds that aims to encourage school-leavers to contemplate a career in the tourism industry.
There were also fewer school-leavers applying for Business, Medicine, Veterinary and Dentistry courses at the country's universities.
These will be younger men, including school-leavers and students in part time work and those who were able to re-enter after a period of unemployment.
Year after year, the UK's elite universities bemoan the lack of knowledge and rigour among their intake of straight-A school-leavers.
The proportion of school-leavers from farms taking up careers in full-time farming will need to increase on its present level.
The unemployment rate for early school-leavers between 18 and 24 was 21.8% in 2004 compared with a rate of 7.9% for all people in that age category.
Most British school-leavers don't even possess the basic facts.
The average starting wage for a school-leaver in this country is between forty and sixty pounds a week, increasing to something like one hundred and fifty in adulthood.
On moving to Ireland in 1998, he began work at the Waterford Institute and cowrote a report in 2000 for the Department of Health & Children on the fall-off in interest among school-leavers in pursuing a career in mental health nursing.
When Margaret Thatcher became prime minister in 1979, around 13% of school-leavers went on into further education.