The government wants to overturn the existing ban on new grammar schools, and will spend # 50 million a year helping existing selective schools to expand. (schoolsweek.co.uk)
Lord Willets spoke out on the Today programme after a government document snapped by a photographer yesterday confirmed the Department for Education was drawing up plans to lift the 18 - year ban on new grammar schools. (totalpolitics.com)
A vote to lift the 19 - year ban on new grammar schools could be postponed until after the next election to guarantee its passage through parliament, Schools Week understands. (schoolsweek.co.uk)