Employment success for Western Isles school leavers
![High percentage of islanders find employment after leaving schools such as the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway.](https://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/webimg/legacy_elm_73933789.jpg?crop=3:2,smart&width=640&quality=65&enable=upscale)
![High percentage of islanders find employment after leaving schools such as the Nicolson Institute in Stornoway.](/img/placeholder.png)
A Scottish Government report has this week confirmed that forty-two per-cent of CnES school leavers went into employment in the year of the survey - the highest recorded in Scotland - compared with just 28 per-cent nationally, and nearly 97 per-cent of local school leavers go on to higher or further education, training and other employment opportunities after leaving school, compared to the national average of nearly 93 per-cent.
Forty per-cent of school leavers in the islands are going to Higher education, compared to thirty-eight per-cent nationally, but only 12 per-cent are going onto the further education, half of the national average figure.