Fran Abrams has suggested that government review the funding targeted at ethnic minority students. The funding in question was known as ‘Section 11’ (of Local Government Act 1966) and had as its aim to help meet ‘special and additional’ needs of the ethnic minority pupils. Perhaps it has served its purpose and should be re-directed to others who need it the most such as white disadvantaged pupils.
According to my research this group are now the largest underachieving group across the country. This was referred to in a speech in Parliament by Richard Burden MP for Birmingham Northfield as recorded in Hansard on 19 May. In response, the government Minister agreed that underachievement by white pupils needed to be acknowledged. I can see no better way of doing so than for the government to provide funding for their needs.
A part of this entry appeared in the Times Educational Supplement.
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