Sentences with phrase «grammar school debate»

The grammar schools debate has shown what can be achieved with everyone working together.

Throughout the grammar schools debate there has been an underlying suspicion from many that the Eton - educated Tory leader is denying others the kind of elite education that grammar schools traditionally provided poorer parents.

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Sunder, One of the problems with the internet debates, especially those around controversial or hotly contested issues, is that the parties very often do not actually appear to engage with each other at all - they merely stand on their own ground shouting to the world about their particular take on a point and fail to actually listen to what others are saying... the classic examples of this is the «debate» about the promotion of women in the European elections and the «debate» about grammar schools - both on Conservative Home.

She added: «I think that the education debate on grammar schools has been going for a very long time, but I also recognise that the landscape in which it takes place has changed fundamentally.

«I think we need to be able to move this debate on and look at things as they are today, and maybe step away from a more old - fashioned debate around grammar schools and work out where they fit in today's landscape.»

Backbench Labour MPs have criticised the government's plans to open new grammar schools, claiming they are based on «flimsy evidence» in a debate i

The debate over opening new grammar schools has seen MPs question how vague the current plans are.

The added introduction of the «grammar school» debate raises additional concerns, as does the push to create «free schools», which many believe is draining funding from existing schools.

The debate around grammar schools has also attracted some unfavourable commentary around the quality of UTCs.

An online petition calling for the first new grammar school in Kent for 50 years has triggered a debate at a full council meeting later this week.

Sarah Shilling, who has led the campaign which has triggered Thursday's council debate, said: «Ideally an entirely new grammar school would be great because that I think is the easiest solution.

The debate over grammar schools has been had.

Clegg joined forces with former education secretary Nicky Morgan and ex-shadow education secretary Lucy Powell today to lead the debate on grammar schools and social mobility, in which he called for an end to the government's new «fetish» with selection.

Grammar schools have returned to our political debate, and I am hoping they remain a topic of debate, filling the summer gap, rather than an item of policy.

The debates rage on about grammar schools, free schools and funding, but without dealing with teacher recruitment and retention, those policy debates are largely irrelevant.

The old transfer tests in English (Irish *), maths and science and technology for those seeking grammar school places, marked externally, were last taken in 2008, though replacements are still under debate

The NUT will debate the possibility of legal action against grammar schools at its annual conference tomorrow, but speaking to journalists today, Courtney said his team had already requested the information from schools which would be used to decide the union's next steps.

We need to be able to move it on and step away from the old - fashioned debate about grammar schools, and work out where they fit [in the system].»

«Under our proposals, existing grammar schools and new grammar schools would only be allowed to open if they met strict conditions designed to ensure increased numbers of less well - off pupils have access to selective education,» Gibb told a debate in the Commons this afternoon.

Mr Gove, debating education policy alongside the former US education secretary Arne Duncan refused to be drawn on whether he agreed with the push for more grammar schools in England.