Recent research on the achievements of ethnic minority pupils

OFSTED has commissioned a limited number of brief but authoritative reviews of research aimed principally to support teachers and those training to be teachers.

This review concentrates on the achievement of ethnic minorities.

It argues that, since the mid-1980s, issues of race and equal opportunity have tended to slip from policy agendas and that this should be reversed.

It focuses on differences in levels of achievement between different ethnic groups, and factors such as social class and gender are also addressed as influencing factors to achievement.