Of the 15,515 pupils who received Educational Maintenance Allowance payments, 23 per cent of those eligible to receive a bonus failed to meet targets for them.
However, Jim Docherty, assistant general secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association, said: "If the allowances helped young people then they are a good thing."
- www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications.
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