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Mmmmm. I'm not sure that you have convinced me that being an apprentice in Sydney is just like having your passport confiscated and being beaten and or sexually abused by your 'employers' for years on end in the UAE. If you want to copy a UAE practise that has made them fabulously wealthy...

Yep, refugees like the Ugandan Indians mentioned by tony often seem to have this attitude so why are Australian's so desperate to keep refugees out?

I don't recognize your description of the USA or UK. The US seems to have far greater social and economic problems than the UK. Also, the UK has always sought and received large numbers of migrants from all over the world and not just migrants who speak the same language, practice the same...

UAE has a highly unequal and exploitative society. Lots of human rights abuses and miserable migrants. Not a model we could follow in Australia.

I see what you mean Weg. The data certainly suggests that parental values and aspirations are more important than wealth. The UK has a much smaller proportion of children in private schools than in Australia, and I expect most of the children in these high performing ethnic groups don't go...

I think the first part of your statement has to be true but I disagree that they are less likely to 'be of a low social class". This list seems to be first to third generation economic migrants and refugees who came to the UK with virtually nothing. If they have wealth now its only because...

Ok, so I miss-read the original article. his alarming statistics on achievement, (40% and 30% of Indian and British children achieving passes) only applies to low income groups. Which is why it contradicts the guardian article which points out how well Indian students are doing. So British...

'Britain?s Department of Education has published figures listing how many low-income children achieved passing grades in secondary school in 2012. Sixty per cent of black African and Bangladeshi students did, about half of Pakistanis and black Caribbean kids did, 40 per cent of Indians did ? and...