school-leaving

• “Under the secondary scheme, students who get specific grades in each of the four primary school-leaving exams study free in public schools and participating private schools.”

  The Guardian: Free universal secondary education in Uganda has yielded mixed results | Richard M Kavuma

• “That's exactly what S.O. was trying to do by calling for the school-leaving age to be raised, for ability tests for benefits to be done away with and for an increase in wages for workers.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “These are two of the weighty questions faced by some of the French school students who took the philosophy exam in the baccalauréat school-leaving diploma over the past few days.”

  The Wall Street Journal: I Think, Therefore I Am Happy

• “But that still meant that 30% of pupils reaching school-leaving age did not achieve this basic benchmark.”

  The Wall Street Journal: U.K. Businesses Press for Focus on Skills

• “Within a year, armed with his school-leaving matriculation certificate, he had moved to Johannesburg to become a trainee photographer on Drum, but it was writing he wanted to do.”

  The Guardian: Lewis Nkosi obituary

• “Aye, all ages; babies, up to school-leaving age, orphans mostly.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Small Death in the Great Glen

• “She studied at a Polish gymnasium that catered to well-connected families and received her school-leaving certificate.”

  Shulamit Bat-Dori.

• “Pupils successfully passed the British school-leaving examinations.”

  Annie Edith Landau.

• “Seventy-five percent sit for the Bagrut school-leaving examinations (as compared with sixty-three percent of boys) and fifty-four percent successfully pass the examinations (as compared to thirty-eight percent of boys).”

  Science in Israel.

• “From her high school years Blau was very interested in mathematics and physics and obtained her Matura (school-leaving certificate) with distinction.”

  Marietta Blau.

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