Exclusive: Government’s race report failed to include findings saying pupils experience discrimination, in education research it commissioned. educationuncovered.co.uk/news/151671/go…
The Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparities ordered a report on education by the organisation NatCen, one of three receiving £100k in total for the work, an FOI has revealed.
The NatCen report featured a host of specific findings on disadvantages reported as being faced by ethnic minority young people at school and university, inc allegations of lower expectations from teachers.
It also recommended that “discrimination based on class and ethnicity at school” should be addressed.
Yet NatCen’s education report is not referenced in the government's race disparity report; the recommendation re addressing discrmination based on ethnicity at school does not feature; and seven specific findings re perceived ethnic minority ed barriers not mentioned, either.
Cabinet Office has said it is categorically wrong to say that commissioned research was “ignored” in the report’s drafting, and pointed to the NatCen findings being based on focus groups with only 31 people. But...
...If findings were not easily generalisable because of this small sample size, does beg the question as to why the research was commissioned in first place.
I could not see any of the NatCen’s report’s specific findings on ethnic minority education barriers referenced in the CRED report. Piece looking at this in detail, again, is here: educationuncovered.co.uk/news/151671/go…

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