Sentences with phrase «few grammar schools»

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Almost all the few Catholic grammar schools that remained became independent and entirely fee paying.

The system was called the «tripartite system», because it also provided for a third type of school, the technical school, but few were ever established, and the system was widely regarded as being bipartite, with the best going to grammar schools and the rest going to the secondary moderns.

It was taken by a ConservativeHome reader who was one of the very few real activists to attend a fringe meeting on grammar schools.

It was also noticeable that he called for a national campaign against the reintroduction of grammar schools - one of the few issues around which the Parliamentary Party is united.

«The government should be focusing on ensuring an excellent education for all children, not just the few who get through the grammar school gates.»

A number of prominent Conservative MPs on Theresa May's Cabinet, including Liam Fox and David Davis, have been vocal proponents of grammar schools, and Education Secretary Justine Greening has said that the government should be «open minded» to the idea of new grammar schools as the education landscape has changed over the last few years.

The Labour government, led by Tony Blair, introduced the law in 1998 that banned the opening of new grammar schools in England, but new Education Secretary Justine Greening said that the government should be «open minded» about repealing the ban, citing that the education landscape had changed dramatically over the past few years.

By their very nature, grammar schools are for the few, otherwise why have them?»

Fewer than half of England's grammar schools give poor pupils priority in allocating places, BBC research shows.

Fewer than half of grammar schools make deliberate efforts to admit children from very low income backgrounds, the BBC has found.

This is a slightly tricky comparison to make because the government performance tables exclude categories in which there are fewer than five pupils, so about 50 of the 164 grammar schools in the country that entered fewer than five pupils eligible for free school meals (FSM) for GCSEs that year are excluded from the analysis.

Kent is one of the few areas of England which retained grammar schools after the majority were abolished in the 1960s and 70s.

The new admission consultation comes a few weeks after schools minister David Laws said he was encouraged to see that some grammar schools were now using the pupil premium as part of their admissions criteria when offering places to pupils.

Hinds attended a St Ambrose Grammar School in Altrincham, Cheshire — one of the few parts of the country that still has selective schools.

Grammar schools take relatively fewer bright, poor pupils than schools that do not select by ability, a study says.

Ninety - eight of the 164 grammar schools have fewer than 3 per cent and 21 have fewer than 1 per cent.

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Nearly all grammar schools have fewer than 10 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals.

The younger children in any cohort are less likely to pass the entrance test for a grammar school, are entered for fewer examinations, and are 10 per cent less likely go to university.

But new research published by the BBC today showed that fewer than half of England's grammar schools give poor pupils priority in allocating places.

Benn questioned the government's commitment to expanding selective education, «despite clear evidence that grammar schools educate few children from poorer backgrounds, damage other local schools, and subject thousands of children to stressful, life - defining, tests when they are only 10».

While few would expect a major thrust for more grammar schools, there might still be a drive to increase capacity and «reach».

While legally required to offer a public - school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that more than a few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything more than basic math, grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.

If grammar schools want to make a real difference to life chances, they should abolish their arbitrary exclusion criteria and make their excellent education open to all, not just the lucky few.»

A few more grammar schools will help more of those who are fighting to break free from being boxed in.

He said far too few children from lower - income families attended grammar schools, which the research put down to the fact that, by the time the 11 - plus is taken, 60 per cent of the disadvantaged attainment gap — equivalent to 10 months of learning by this stage — has emerged.

And while the few pupils who go to grammar schools and who are eligible for free school meals (FSM) tend to have better results, FSM - eligible pupils in the same areas who do not attend grammar schools — which is the majority — are likely to have lower attainment than those in other parts of England.

In 98 of the 164 grammar schools it is fewer than 3 % and in 21 fewer than 1 %.

I went to school at a time when formal grammar instruction was falling out of fashion, so I rely on a few favourite resources.

That guy specifically made a few minor spelling mistakes and one or two little grammar ticks (this is ignoring contractions since almost nobody online uses apostrophes in them), but unless you either actively write, are an English major, or just have a really good memory back from English class in school you're unlikely to even remember the rules that he broke.