What's prompted this then? From 2015, all young people will have to stay in education or training until they are 18. To ensure young people make the best of this opportunity, the Equality and Human Rights Commission has been talking to young people and reviewing existing research to find out about their experiences of learning, and specifically what makes them more - or less - likely to engage.
So how do young people feel they're doing? The quantitative part of this study showed that 95 per cent of 14- to 18-year-olds felt they were doing very or fairly well. What is more, 98 per cent of young people felt very or fairly able to improve their current situation.
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