Indian, Chinese students way above their Brit counterparts in UK schools
June 7th, 2009 - 1:14 pm ICT by ANILondon, June 7 (ANI): Indian and Chinese pupils are all well ahead of their British counterparts in the UK schools, a new research has revealed.
The findings based on exam results at each of the nation’s 30,000 schools have shown that British boys are virtually bottom of the class.
They do worse in their GCSEs than kids from almost every other group in the country.
According to the research by government education chiefs, Caribbean, Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Indian, black African and Chinese pupils-as well as girls from any background-perform better than white boys.
The study also found that only gypsy and traveller children or those in care i.e. kids whose educations are routinely disrupted come below white boys.
Nick Seaton, chairman of the Campaign for Real Education, holds British parents responsible for the disappointing result, insisting they don’t give their sons the educational support they need.
“Chinese and Indian youngsters do well because they are pushed by their parents to do well and have supportive families-but many white British males don’t have this,” the News of the World quoted Seaton as saying.
“Also white boys could do as well as anyone if they got the chance to go to a good school,” he added.
A spokesman for the Department for School Children and Families (DSCF)-who produced the report- admitted “underachieve ment, regardless of background or ethnicity, can only be tackled by changing the aspirations of young people, their parents and the education system”. (ANI)
- Indian, Black pupils brighter than white Brits when taking exams at 16: Study - Sep 15, 2010
- Indian, Chinese students outshine white Britons by age 16 - Sep 15, 2010
- Brit school launches talking PCs for students who can't speak English - Jul 07, 2010
- British school marries off minors - Nov 26, 2010
- School bars footballs from playground - Sep 23, 2011
- UK school stages marriage of boy, 6, girl, 5, to help pupils write better - Nov 26, 2010
- Abu Dhabi Indian schools to have 20,000 seats by 2013 - Apr 22, 2011
- Children with pushy parents 'do better at school' - Oct 29, 2010
- School with Indian kids named Britain's best - Dec 16, 2011
- Kids with mother tongue English a minority in British schools - Mar 23, 2012
- Malaysian assemblyman urges Indian parents to send children to Tamil schools - Jan 07, 2011
- Brit school bans fountain pens as they 'stop pupils from getting results' - Oct 12, 2010
- Survey says that Britain pupils are bad losers - Apr 04, 2011
- British teachers warn of rising pupil-violence - Mar 30, 2012
- UK's couch potato kids aged 4 to get lifestyle coaches - Mar 06, 2010
Tags: aspirations, bottom of the class, british boys, british counterparts, british parents, chinese students, dscf, education system, educational support, educations, exam results, gcses, government education, news of the world, real education, seaton, supportive families, traveller children, white boys, youngsters
