1, This can have a demotivating effect on more able pupils and can lead to under-achievement.

2, Underachievement, however, means something rather different when the focus of educational concern is black pupils.

3, Mr McGuinness argues that the present system breeds inequality and produces a long tail of educational under-achievement.

4, Therefore, underachievement can be viewed as a social product, not just the problem of the child.

5, Toronto's underachievement is not his fault, but he could pay a price for it.

6, In school age children, depression can be underachievement and withdrawal from school and social activities.

7, The goal of the UN report was to compare educational underachievement across the industrialized countries.

8, There will always be exceptions – incredible overachievement, awful underachievement; but on average, the correlation is clear to see.

9, FOR GARY Neville, nothing rankles more than a decade of underachievement.