In the European Union, 16.9 % of boys and 12.7 % of girls are early school leavers, so reducing the average European rate of ealy school leavers to less than 10 % by 2020 is one of the education headline targets of the Europe 2020 strategy because individual early school leavers are more likely to be unemployed, to be in precarious and low-paid jobs, to draw on welfare and other social programmes...