Calls for more school supports as survey shows migrant children lag behind in reading

"(...) Professor Irena Kogan of the University of Mannheim, Germany said across the OECD - countries in the developed world - first generation migrants perform on average 10pc worse than students without a migrant background when it comes to reading performance, and they are also typically outperformed by non-migrant students in science. (...)

Professor Kogan said there were many factors that contribute to the performance gaps between migrants and their peers. “Language proficiency is obviously an important one, but parental socio-economic status is also an important factor. By virtue of their often less advantageous economic positions, students with migrant backgrounds are less likely to have access to tutoring and learning supervision. “Migrants are also effected by ethnic and socio-economic segregation, which often concentrates large numbers of them in poorer quality schools.” (...)"