IBEC calls for transition year to be offered to all students

ALL schools should offer transition year to students to help them develop skills for the workplace, employers group IBEC has claimed.

The organisation’s assistant director of enterprise Caroline Nash said the transition year option would get much higher public support if revised standards were applied in all schools.

The option is only available to students at around two-thirds of the country’s 750 second level schools and is only compulsory in around 125 schools.