Pupils: Immigrants
Children, Schools and Families
Written answers and statements, 3 November 2009
Andrew Smith (Oxford East, Labour)
To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families what research his Department has (a) undertaken, (b) commissioned and (c) evaluated on the educational achievement of children of (i) Bangladeshi and (ii) Pakistani origin in the last five years.
Diana Johnson (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Children, Schools and Families; Kingston upon Hull North, Labour)
In the last five years this Department has (a) undertaken two pieces of internal analysis entitled "2006—Ethnicity and Education: The Evidence on Minority Ethnic Pupils aged five—16" and "2007—Ethnicity and Degree Attainment"; and, (b) commissioned two pieces of research entitled "2004—Inclusion and Pupil Achievement" and "2009—Drivers and Challenges to raising the achievement of pupils from Bangladeshi, Somali and Turkish backgrounds", all of which have included the educational achievement of Bangladeshi and Pakistani children.