Pupils in Scotland, September 2004, published by the Scottish Executive last week, shows that 72.4 per cent of boys remained in school in 2004 to do their Highers - similar to the first year of an A-level.
The level had remained static since 2002, when it fell from 74.6 per cent the previous year. In 2000, the rate was 74.7 per cent. But a higher proportion of young women stay on until S5, the Scottish equivalent of lower sixth form. The proportion of pupils in 2004 who stayed at school after Christmas in S5, when education becomes voluntary, shows an even wider gender gap - 72.1 per cent of girls, compared with 62.6 per cent of boys.
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