Rethinking Educational Disadvantage

This symposium, which includes national and international scholars, as well as policy-makers, advocates and beneficiaries of affirmative action programmes, interrogates the issue of educational disadvantage and asks: “Is the education system itself indirectly promoting and perpetuating inequality? Is it now time to take a closer, more comprehensive and rigorous look at the lived reality of educational disadvantage? Is it time to recognise that policy responses must be multi-faceted and meaningfully resourced, work in concert with those at the coal face and acknowledge that this is not an issue schools alone can address”