Abstract
'THE FACT THAT NEGRO STUDENTS, ON THE AVERAGE, score below White students on most measures of academic achievement is well documented;. . . So writes Edgar G. Epps1, Professor of Sociology and Chairman of the Division of Social Sciences at Tuskegee Institute, the famous Black foundation in Alabama. Recently, Dr Barnabas Otaala2 of Makerere University in Uganda, stated in a review that psychological studies of quantitatively assessed intelligence show a consistently inferior level among Africans. On Wednesday 19 June, 1971, The Times reported some results of a study on immigrant pupils in England; of children of West Indian origin 2.3 per cent were in schools for the educationally subnormal, as against 0.58 per cent for other immigrant children, and0.68 per cent for English born. Of West Indian children, 1.58 per cent were in the select Grammar schools, compared with 8.41 per cent of other immigrants and 20.33 per cent of English.3
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