ABSTRACT
Like many other areas of social life, education is an area replete with issues pertinent to discrimination. Academic tests and qualifications standardly play a dual role in systems of education. This chapter explores the possible issues of discrimination connected with academic tests and qualifications first and foremost through the lens of their role in those admissions processes. It focuses on admissions to higher education institutions, many of the relevant issues translate to admissions in earlier stages of education, including selective schools and so-called 'streaming' within schools. The kind of would-be gender indirect discrimination discussed in the above concerning gender in educational assessment processes relates to the improper influence of gender-correlated ability to obtain more highly-rated portfolios of accomplishment. The chapter concentrates on the ways fees might be thought to discriminate on the basis of social class. A further contrast between schools and other religious institutions concerns the potential rights at stake.
