In 1959 the Encyclopaedia Britannica described Gypsies as having a mental age of 10. Today, of the 58,000 people who identified themselves as being of Gypsy/Traveller ethnicity, 60% had no formal qualifications whatsoever. Yet this cannot simply be put down – as the Britannica once claimed – to a basic lack of potential among Gypsies to excel in education. The reality behind these figures is a complex web series of factors - via Comment is free
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