Transfer tests and the grammar school system 'disadvantages the already most disadvantaged', QUBelfast research suggests
But in their paper, Prof Joanne Hughes and Dr Rebecca Loader from QUB argued that equality and equity are casualties of a deeply-flawed system.
"In a society emerging from conflict, those in more marginalised communities experience the consequences of this most acutely. Prof Hughes and Dr Loader also called academic selection a linchpin of the divided education system which "serves to perpetuate class and group divisions within and between school sectors, and across wider society in Northern Ireland".
"The dynamic of a selective system, mapped also on Catholic and Protestant lines, works against children and young people from different socio-economic backgrounds learning together, within and between communities," their paper said.
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