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Children of immigrants at academic disadvantage

This content was published on Jun 21, 2011 Conducted by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF), the study examined the primary level achievements of over 5,000 children born in 1985 in German-speaking Switzerland. It found that although immigrant children did not achieve worse marks than Swiss ones, they were under-represented in so-called matura schools – for pupils expecting to go on to university…