Reveals the post-matric destinations - including the labour market outcomes - of a nationally representative cohort of learners. This title is of interest to policy-makers and planners in various fields across the public and private sectors.

Organisation of the report; review of the literature; student choice behaviour, learner aspirations and learner pathways; teacher recruitment and retention; the research problem; research questions; research hypotheses; the research design; questionnaire design; sampling; response rates; data analysis; learners' destinations; present study and work situation; factors affecting student enrolment in a specified higher education institution; students in further education and training; students enrolled in an FET college; students enrolled in a private FET institution; factors affecting enrolment in an FET institution; learners still at school; professional aspiration; factors affecting preference for a specified profession; enrolment in education programmes in higher education; learners not studying; employment; profile of the employed; profile of the unemployed; experiences of 2006; first-year students' experiences of 2006; all learners' experiences of 2006; interpretation of key findings; translation of aspiration into enrolment; the school-to-labour market transition; testing the hypotheses; conclusion; assessing the aspirations gap; enhancing teacher recruitment.