Swann (1985)

(page numbers in brackets)

Preliminary pages (i-xliv)
Membership, Contents, Introduction

Part I: Setting the scene
Chapter 1 (1-8)
The nature of society
Chapter 2 (9-37)
Racism: theory and practice
Chapter 3 (57-187)
Achievement and underachievement

Part II: Education for all
Chapter 4 (189-228)
Ethnic minorities and education: historical perspective
Chapter 5 (229-314)
Multicultural education: further studies
Chapter 6 (315-381)
'Education for all': a new approach

Part III: Major areas of concern
Chapter 7 (383-464)
Language and language education
Chapter 8 (465-539)
Religion and the role of the school
Chapter 9 (541-645)
Teacher education; employment of ethnic minority teachers

Part IV: 'Other' ethnic minority groups
Introduction (647-651)
Chapter 10 (653-670)
Chinese children
Chapter 11 (671-693)
Cypriot children
Chapter 12 (695-709)
Italian children
Chapter 13 (711-717)
Ukranian children
Chapter 14 (719-732)
Vietnamese children
Chapter 15 (733-738)
'Liverpool Blacks'
Chapter 16 (739-759)
Travellers' children
Reflections and conclusions (760-763)

Part V:
Main conclusions and recommendations (765-776)

Appendices
Appendix A (777-779)
Co-opted members to Sub Committees
Appendix B (780-787)
Educational institutions which submitted evidence
Appendix C (788-794)
LEAs and organisations which submitted evidence
Appendix D (795-805)
Individuals who submitted evidence
Appendix E (806-807)
List of open meetings

Report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups

Cmnd. 9453

London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office 1985
© Crown copyright material is reproduced with the permission of the Controller of HMSO and the Queen's Printer for Scotland.

Notes on the text

Swann was the final report of the Committee of Enquiry into the Education of Children from Ethnic Minority Groups. The Committee's interim report, published in 1981, was the Rampton Report, which is also online.

Swann was a major report. Its 851 pages contain 16 chapters, 5 appendices and 40 or so tables (but no alphabetical subject index). There is also introductory material and a section containing the main conclusions and recommendations. Many of the chapters include annexes. The report is presented here in its entirety.

The formatting of the text (bold, italics, centred etc) is a reasonably accurate representation of the printed version. However, please note that the pages presented here are not exact facsimiles of the original printed version: the font (Times, Arial etc) and size of print - and therefore the number of words to a line and lines to a page - are determined by the settings you have chosen for your web browser.

There are two other differences between the printed and online versions:

Many of the subheadings in the report are printed in the left-hand margin. I have moved these into the body of the text. In a handful of cases this has meant dividing a paragraph into two.

In this web version of the report, the larger tables are shown as links in the text - clicking on one opens a new window displaying the relevant table.

The printed version of the report contains dozens - if not hundreds - of spelling mistakes (of which perhaps the most glaring is 'Hucklebury Finn'!) and wrongly placed commas and speech marks. I have corrected all those I spotted.

Anything I've added by way of explanation is shown [in square brackets].