Experts question plans for schools’ funding
In a paper published in the most recent Journal of Irish Education, the Educational Research Centre (ERC) at St Patrick’s College in Dublin examined the links between pupils’ socio-economic circumstances, their gender and their achievement at school.
While they found evidence to support continuing the policy of identifying and targeting schools with concentrations of disadvantage, authors Nick Sofroniou, Peter Archer and Susan Weir suggested alternative ways of targeting those schools.
