- understanding of ethnicity and ethnic minority achievement in school is made easier by separating factors outside school with those influential factors inside school
- The achievement of ethnic minority pupils in UK schools is very complex
- The Swann Report of 1985 examined the underachievement of some ethnic minority groups
- It’s important not see ethnic minorities as a homogenised (single group), this is because patterns of achievement between diverse ethnic groups is varied
- Pupils of Indian and Chinese origin tend to do very well, making best progress and levels of achievement
- By contrast, pupils of Pakistani origin show a varied pattern of achievement with some doing very well while others did relatively poorly
- Nevertheless, minority ethnic tend to underachieve when compared to other population groups
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