| Description | Press cuttings from local and national newspapers containing articles relating to the education of children from migrant communities, mainly in Birmingham and the West Midlands, but also in other areas of Britain. Articles discuss some of the difficulties faced by children and their parents in gaining an education within the British system, the lack of resources devoted to the needs of migrant groups, and the incidence of racial discrimination within the education system. Other reports give information about initiatives by local education authorities, and efforts by groups such as the Indian Workers Association and other activist and community groups to address some of the problems faced in schools by children from Asian and African Caribbean backgrounds.
Coverage includes: a study of migrant teenagers in Birmingham; Punjabi lessons being offered to public service employees at Warley College; teacher-counsellors in Birmingham to help immigrant children adjust to new environments; a school set up for Sikh children by the Birmingham branch of the 'International Sikh Brotherhood'; Campaign Against Racial Discrimination [CARD] opposition to National Union of Teachers [NUT] executive acceptance of proposals that immigrant children have health checks before starting school; research project at the University of Birmingham to help teachers educating immigrant children 1967; Asian parents send their children to private schools rather than attend an 'all-coloured' council school; teachers at Handsworth Technical College work overtime to teach immigrant children; National Committee for Commonwealth Immigrants [NCCI] working on proposals for laws against racial discrimination to help school leavers; immigrant children not speaking English at home and not mixing with other groups; children learning English at an induction centre for immigrant children in Walsall; integration is easier at multi-racial playgroups 1968; immigrant classes held in huts in Ealing because the borough can't provide accommodation; Anderton Park Church of England school in Moseley is accused of being run for selected white children 1968; mothers of white children attending a primary school in Wolverhampton want segregation; 'Daily Express' focus on the absorption of immigrant children in schools, 1965; children show racial preferences in the school playground according to a survey by Wolverhampton Remedial Teaching Service; white working class parents boycott the David Gretton Nursery school in Edgbaston, Birmingham because of the numbers of immigrant children while middle class parents from university area have fewer problems with this 1967; priorities in the education of immigrant children put forward by Sir Edward Boyle at a lecture to the Institute of Race Relations in London; high educational standards of immigrant children in West Bromwich school; City Liaison Officer for the immigrant communities in Birmingham to visit parents in a survey to find out what they want for their children; visit by Hamilton Yiba from South Africa to Belgrave Junior & Infants school in Balsall Heath, Birmingham to see mixed race classes; Indian Workers Association campaign to get schools in Birmingham to offer Indian languages as optional subjects 1966; self-help scheme in Southall by the Community Relations Council to get volunteers to go into immigrant homes to teach English 1969; immigrant 'problem' in Brent schools 1969; National Association of Schoolmasters report on 'Education and the Immigrant' focusing on Wolverhampton; white parents in Wolverhampton consider a plan to educate their children at home in areas where the schools have high numbers of immigrant children; Jill Knight claims that the situation is tense in areas with high immigrant populations; Lord Snow's racist remarks on 'genetic inheritance', claiming that black children are intellectually inferior; Nation Union of Teachers [NUT] calls for separate reception centres for immigrant children; Smethwick conservatives plan for separate classes for immigrants rejected; school in Sparkhill, Birmingham has to refuse admission to immigrant children without English skills due to a staff shortage; reception centres for immigrant children without English skills proposed for Birmingham; Bingo to be taught to non-English speaking children to help them to learn; adult learners English course introduced in Dudley; Sparkbrook Association teach families English at home; Dudley headmaster praises Indian boys for passing CSEs; report finds that African Caribbeans speak purer English than English people; Bangor students who want to teach English abroad do teaching practice in Birmingham with immigrant children; African Caribbean homes are often happier according to Birmingham social workers and marriage counsellors; debate about whether Irish children should be classed as immigrants; focus on a girl from Pakistan, and others, being taught at special classes for immigrant children in Birmingham; Sikh children to be taught about Christianity in Smethwick, organised by a Sikh temple; African Caribbean children get poor results at school according to a Birmingham headmaster in Small Heath; dispute over white children being segregated in Wolverhampton; dispute in Haringey over the dispersal of immigrant children throughout schools and the definition of 'immigrant' 1969; Department of Education report that immigrant children are at a disadvantage because of cultural traditions; Haringey council officials disagree with a report alleging that African Caribbean children have lower intelligence than English children; Andrew Faulds, Labour MP for Smethwick, urges firms employing Asian workers to teach English and Indian languages to workers to prevent race disputes; criticism of suggestions by Roy Hattersley to disperse immigrant children throughout schools in Birmingham; National Union of Teachers [NUT] rejects a statement by John Rex of Durham University that dispersal is racist; focus on the dispersal campaign in Birmingham; National Committee of Commonwealth Immigrants expresses concerns about the interpretation of the dispersal policy by local authorities; Parents want to remove their children from Grove Lane primary school in Handsworth because of the high proportion of immigrants; calls for a report on the standard of education at Grove Lane; Headmaster of Westminster Road Junior school in Handsworth wants Birmingham education authorities to act to stop more schools becoming dominated by immigrant children; Lord Mayor to be asked to call conference of education officials, parents, teachers and leaders of immigrant organisations to solve problems facing schools dominated by immigrant pupils by D. R. Prem, vice-chairman of the Commonwealth Welfare Council; Headmaster of Westminster Road Junior school in Handsworth accuses Birmingham education authority of not doing enough to solve problems; success of a 'friendly persuasion' scheme to get parents to spread their children around schools; parents hold an impromptu meeting at Grove Lane school to protest about low standards; Birmingham Head Teachers Association discusses problems of immigrant children; Midland Counties Young Teacher Section of the National Union of Teachers [NUT] discusses the problems of dealing with immigrant children; Head of Grove Lane school calls for patience to avoid prejudice 1965; pressure on Edward Short, Secretary of State for Education, to intervene more effectively on behalf of areas where schools have a high proportion of immigrants; Roy Hattersley's comments about dispersal, and his hurried visit to Golden Hillock school in Sparkhill; voluntary helping out by teachers has eased the situation in Birmingham according to a report to Birmingham Education Committee; Birmingham borough Labour party is not in favour of dispersal in either education or housing; National Union of Teachers [NUT] sanctions over salaries, supervising school meals and working with unqualified teachers; awareness of racial differences starts at 7, according to a survey by Rowley of Wolverhampton Remedial Teaching Service; courses run for Commonwealth immigrant teachers at Leicester University; new teachers go on a course to learn about requirements for teaching immigrant children; proposal for higher salaries for teachers in schools with high levels of immigrant children; focus on the shortage of teachers and initiatives that need to be implemented to combat this; Birmingham to provide special arrangements for teaching English to immigrant children in schools; meeting organised by African Caribbean Happy Link club in Balsall Heath to talk about the problems of teaching immigrant children; provision of reception centres for immigrant children in Birmingham; schools in Bradford should get more money to cope with problems of helping immigrant children; 'no teaching' strike at Birmingham schools by members of the Birmingham Association of Schoolmasters. |