Already a subscriber?School students who opt for the International Baccalaureate over a traditional leaving certificate are almost 100 per cent certain to be offered a place at university and, once there, achieve higher marks and are far less likely to drop out, new research has found.in senior high school between 2013 and 2018 found almost all “who applied for university gained an offer to study”.
Significantly, students from poor families did as well at university as those from rich backgrounds, a trend that is not observed in the general population, lead author Kylie Hillman from the Australian Council of Educational Research said. “But even for students from advantaged backgrounds, we can see they do better when they get to university than other students,” she said.