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(also simply Dropout)

Disengagement from an education or training programme before its completion, without having achieved the relevant learning or training objectives.

Comment

• Dropout may apply to the process (early school-leaving) and to an individual who fails to complete a course (early school-leaver);
• besides early school-leavers, dropouts may also refer to learners who have completed education or training but failed the final examinations;
• this term is close to, but not synonymous with: early school-leaving / early leaving from education and training.