This study looks at the limitations of the stereotype of educational underachievement restricted to Protestant working-class boys from disadvantaged inner-city
communities. In deliberately seeking to expand the scope of enquiry to encompass a broader demographic and geographic spread, this study is significant.
It has given a voice to a much wider cross-section of school leaders, pupils, and community representatives than in previous studies, and in doing so has highlighted a divergence of experience and opinion across and between educational phases within the diverse controlled schools sector in Northern Ireland.
Funded by the Transferor Representatives' Council and produced by the Centre for Research in Educational Underachievement at Stranmillis University College.
