Future head teachers should spend time in schools where white working class pupils are successful to learn how to disrupt the cycle of serious under achievement endemic in this group of young people ...

The chief executive of Phoenix Education Centre, Emma Shaw, said the long-standing educational underachievement in working class Protestant areas is a big concern. "It’s a hugely complex ...

persistent underachievement by working-class Protestant children, and wider male underachievement in education. They also say that "prejudice-based bullying is a persistent problem". They say the ...