Educational attainment of Muslim pupils in England and Scotland

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Educational attainment of Muslim pupils in
England and Scotland

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Outline of presentation

• Educational attainment of Muslim pupils
• Progression of pupils through school
• Exclusions
• Scottish and English data
• Summary and comparison

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Methodology

• Secondary analysis of large scale survey data
  (Scottish pupils survey, year LSYPE, 2001
  Census, Government statistics)
• Difficulties to disentangle religion from
  ethnicity - 99.16 of Pakistani girls and 97.46
  of Pakistani boys, 97.27 of Bangladeshi girls
  and 98.66 of Bangladeshi boys self-identifying
  as Muslim (LSYPE).
• In the Scottish analysis, ethnicity is used as
  proxy for religion.

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KS4/GCSE results, by ethnicity, England (boys)

• Source Government Equality Office (2010)

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KS4/GCSE results, by ethnicity, England (girls)
Source Government Equality Office (2010)
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Differences from average assessments, boys aged
7-16, not FSM (LSYPE)
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Differences from average assessments, girls aged
7-16, not FSM (LSYPE)
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Exclusion by ethnic group and gender (, England,
2005-06) (DCSF, 2009)
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Secondary 4 results, by ethnicity, Scotland, 2008
(boys)
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Secondary 4 results, by ethnicity, Scotland, 2008
(girls)
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Three year tariff score of S4 pupils by ethnicity
and deprivation (SIMD 2006) (Scottish Government,
2009d)
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Cases of fixed period exclusion by ethnic
background of pupils 2007/2008 (Scottish
Government, 2009c)
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Highest qualification, by ethnicity, men, UK,
2006-2008 () Working age population (Source
LFS, 2006-08)
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Highest qualification, by ethnicity, women, UK,
2006-08 () Working age population
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Summary

• Attainment Overall Chinese and Indian pupils
  were the best performing groups and Black
  African, Caribbean and travellers the worst
  performing groups.
• Progress - Muslim pupils start off well below
  national average but catch up in England
• However, at the age of 16 Pakistani boys in
  England still score well below national average
  in Scotland the gap is generally smaller.

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Summary II

• Gender difference is marked and cut across
  ethnicity. Notably, Pakistani girls make greater
  progress than Pakistani boys and overtake white
  girls.
• Social deprivation matters but the difference
  in educational attainment on the grounds of
  social deprivation is not as great for minority
  ethnic groups as for white pupils.