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About 75m children are missing primary education
55% of them are girls
1 billion people cannot read or write
R v Birmingham City Council ex parte EOC
[1989] AC 155
The City Council was held to have discriminated against girls by failing to secure that girls had a equal chance of getting a single sex grammar school place as boys.
Discrimination in the education field in the UK is fully analysed in McManus “Education and the Courts” at Chapter 3.
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