Only about 4% of school leavers managed to get there by the time they turned 21.
The orchestra, marking its first anniversary, encourages school leavers to carry on playing instruments.
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However, the survey found 69% of young people thought high-quality training was available to school-leavers.
Once they compared state- and private-school leavers with identical qualifications, the earnings premium disappeared.
If only this could be brought under control, he says, the leavers would return.
The head of the agency that handles applications suggests that many school leavers postpone university altogether.
Despite all this, the government wants 20% of school leavers to become apprentices by 2020.
Armed forces minister Adam Ingram said the government recognised that "effective resettlement" was vital for service leavers.
In 10 years we will think nothing of school-leavers going off to university anywhere in the world.
Leavers would be cut off from foreign finance, perhaps for years, further starving their economies of funds.
That figure is predicted to double by 2050 - a third of primary school leavers are already overweight.
Until this year, local authorities were not obliged to treat homeless service leavers as priority cases for rehousing.
They say research is needed into exactly what mathematical skills employers and universities need school leavers to have.
Business leaders are calling on the Welsh government to take "urgent action" to ensure school leavers are prepared.
In terms of mathematics and science scores for school-leavers, these countries rank among the highest in the world.
The Ucas figures include an analysis comparing applications from school leavers in the poorest and richest areas of England.
With over 50, 000 possible courses to choose from, school leavers are being advised to research their options very carefully.
The CBI recently warned that many employers were unhappy with the levels of literacy and numeracy among school leavers.
The leavers have been those with jobs or most likely to get them.
This is now approaching 5% of university leavers - up from 3% in the middle of the last decade.
Botswana's school-leavers are, on average, more literate and numerate than South Africa's, so workers are not hard to train.
Education will be retooled to make college leavers fit for the 21st Century.
Jobless school-leavers of all grades find themselves worse off than their parents, without work and apparently without a future.
Some East-Asian countries could also do more to improve education so that school leavers have the skills they need.
And each year, 10% of school-leavers drift away without any qualifications at all.
Just 30% of male school-leavers applied to university for autumn 2012, compared to 40% of female school-leavers, according to Ucas.
It said the government's skills policy would need to focus on training migrant workers, the long-term unemployed and school leavers.
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Train those employees to steer unhappy store-leavers to places where they can redress what went wrong, either right then or later.
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The study looked at police officer numbers for 31 March, 2008, and factored in projections for recruitment, retirals, and other leavers.
Not all pupils had brought their certificate in and we could not check leavers from last year's S4, 5 or 6.
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