Subject level choices cut migrant students’ college chances

Migrant children’s chances of attending college are reduced before they even sit the Junior Certificate because of subject level choices, research shows.

NUI Galway’s Dr Valerie Ledwith said the finding, based on research at schools in Galway, showed migrant students were less likely than others to take higher-level English, maths, and science.

This means their odds of going to university were severely curtailed because of the reduced points available for ordinary level subjects they would go on to take in the Leaving Certificate.