Ireland has scored highly for its efforts to promote educational equality among the State’s children - with notable exceptions involving Traveller children, the homeless and immigrants. According to a report from UN children’s charity Unicef, Ireland ranks second out of 41 wealthy nations in promoting educational equality between children. The report entitled An Unfair Start: Inequality in Children’s Education in Rich Countries looked at two principle indicators of inequality. Firstly, it looked at the percentage of students enrolled in organised learning one year before the official age for entering primary school. The ranking results for Ireland show that inequality among children decreases as they move from early childhood education to primary school and on to secondary school.

Source: The Irish Times October 30, 2018 07:28 UTC