Social mobility

• Platt (2005) used longitudinal data from the ONS and the 2001 census to find that between 1971 and 1991 Indian individuals experienced upward social mobility while African-Caribbeans experienced downward social mobility in the UK
• Amy Sedhi (2014) report from the university of Manchester found that Chinese, Irish, Black, and Bangladeshi individuals outperform their white peers in GCSEs however other statistics show they find it harder to gain employment despite this
• Martin Mac An Ghail (1994) claims that underperforming white boys are most likely to form anti-school subcultures
• Heidi Mirza (1997) says Afro-Caribbean girls tend to be pro-education