Sentences with phrase «grammars increase social mobility»

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He explained: «We know that grammar schools do not increase social mobility.

«Until existing grammar schools demonstrate they can be vehicles for social mobility, the number of grammar schools should not be increased,» said Sir Peter.

And on grammar schools, the evidence suggests they do not increase social mobility and they do not raise academic standards overall.

«Having made social mobility the centre of his conference speech, David Cameron should look at the clear evidence on grammar schools: they do not increase equality of opportunity, they make it worse,» said Powell.

Ministers have provided no evidence of how extra grammar schools will increase the social mobility of our young people — an issue more pronounced in the midlands and the north, as Craig Whittaker rightly pointed out.

At the beginning of the year, grammar schools were still firmly on the government's agenda, despite two EPI reports and countless other experts explaining how bad it would be for social mobility, and there was no planned increase to the schools budget, despite fears of a funding crisis.