Sees racism as an ingrained failure of society, involving not just the intentional actions of individuals but more importantly institutional racism
Institutional racism
Lock-in inequality, where the scale of historical discrimination is so large that there no longer needs to be any conscious intent to discriminate, the inequality becomes self-perpetuating, it feeds on itself
Ethnic inequality in education
So deep rooted and so large that it is a practically inevitable feature of the education system
Marketisation
Gives schools more scope to select pupils, allowing negative stereotypes to influence decisions about school admissions
Selection procedures
Lead to ethnic segregation, with minority pupils failing to get into better secondary schools due to discrimination, favouring white pupils and disadvantaging pupils from ethnic minority backgrounds
The Commission for Racial Equality identified biases in Britain, where racism in school admissions procedures means that ethnic minority children are more likely to end up in unpopular schools
Biases in school admissions procedures
Reports from primary schools that stereotype minority pupils
Racist bias in interviews for school places
Lack of information and application forms in minority languages
Ethnic minority parents are often unaware of how the waiting list system works and the importance of deadlines
