Sentences with phrase «many more grammar schools»

The only problems were those of growth: new schools were needed, not just the new secondary modern schools, but more grammar schools.

He wants more grammar schools.

Support for grammars is strong across all age and income groups with a remarkable 85 % of 18 to 24 year - olds (many of whom will be first - time voters) wanting more grammar schools.

The Tory moves to encourage more grammar schools gives a tremendous opportunity to Labour to lead a broad opposition.

More grammar schools are not the answer to improving social mobility and preparing Britain for the future

Furthermore, he appears to have slipped into a U-turn - saying more grammar schools could be built 16 days after he started a Tory row by insisting there would be no more grammar schools.

Shadow attorney general Dominic Grieve appeared to break ranks to say more grammar schools should be built in his local area if there is demand.

But Mr Willetts insisted yesterday the Tories had not ruled out building more grammar schools where necessary.

Earlier this month shadow education secretary David Willetts affirmed the Conservatives» support for city academies and refusal to build any more grammar schools.

A Department for Education source said that the Queen's Speech was an unambiguous decision not to go ahead with creating more grammar schools.

It's often been pointed out that no education secretary abolished more grammar schools than Margaret Thatcher between 1970 and 1974.

Mr Farage said a number of his policies — such as one to bring back more grammar schools - appealed to Tory MPs who were slavishly voting «for a leader who appears to be more of a social democrat».

Powell has said that selective education «creates barriers for disadvantaged children» and has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to rethink proposals to allow more grammar schools to open.

Only 38 per cent of people believe that the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, according to a YouGov poll.

Public Opinion A YouGov poll found that only 38 per cent of people believe the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, which suggests there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea.

These policies consisted of lower university tuition fees, ranked the best measure by 23 per cent, and more grammar schools, ranked by eight per cent.

«You might expect that where you have more grammar schools, you will have more of the really top students, that's not what we've seen,» said Mr Schleicher.

The government says that providing more grammar school places would give extra opportunities for poorer pupils.

She said: «When we add more grammar school places to an area, these schools will have to fill their places with children who are further down the ability scale.

Labour oppose the creation of more grammar schools saying that instead of improving equality, they make it worse.

He strongly believes pupils should be able to move easily between technical qualifications, apprenticeships and degrees and, if pushed, he believes more grammar schools would be okay as long as they are accompanied with equally selective technical schools, as was first envisaged by the Conservatives back in the 1940s.

Earlier this week, the union argued that more grammar schools «should not be a priority for the future of education».

«We have serious issues about social mobility, in particular white working - class young people, and I don't think that having more grammar schools is going to help them,» he said.

Yet despite the DfE report stating that the PISA data «provided little support» to arguments that academic selection boost the progress of the most disadvantaged pupils, ministers said the PISA results support plans for more grammar schools.

Justine Greening seemed unenthusiastic about the prime minister's Tory heartlands view of education, characterised by the push for more grammar schools.

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «The government consultation puts forward proposals to allow more grammar school places to be created, making them a realistic choice for more parents, but only on the basis that strict conditions are met to ensure this also contributes to the improvement of other parts of the school system.»

She tells BBC Radio 4's The World at One that she is in favour of more grammar schools saying they «are a welcome addition to the choice on offer to parents» and that they will be «a 21st century model of grammar school».

Do you support the idea of having more grammar schools?

«We have set out our proposals to look at introducing more grammar schools where local communities want that.»

BBC Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys says the statement clears the way for draft plans to be brought forward, including Theresa May's proposals for more grammar schools in England.

But more grammar schools have also moved into the outstanding category, from 77 in 2013 to 83 per cent this year.

Education Secretary Justine Greening avoids question of which expert backs more grammar schools

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

Damian Hinds» appointment shows the prime minister has not given up on more grammar schools despite lack of enthusiasm by experts or voters

He said he believed there was «overwhelming support from parents» for more grammar school places.

The Tories» loss of their majority meant that the prime minister had to abandon plans to create more grammar schools, while a concerted school funding campaign meant that Justine Greening soon announced an additional # 1.3 billion would be added to the core schools budget over the next two years.

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

More than a third (38 %) of people say they believe that the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select by academic ability.

He added that there was a risk that pupils in areas with large numbers of selective places, more grammar schools would «reduce the results achieved by poorer children» on average.

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.

Not exact matches

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A damaging row over grammar schools policy, unease among the grassroots about the leadership's efforts to introduce more women and ethnic minority parliamentary candidates and Gordon Brown's self - assured performance as Prime Minister in the summer of 2007 imperilled the Tory recovery.

More recently, the Coalition government's plans for all schools to become academies have raised some controversy within the grammar school sector.

For every one child that might successfully make it through a grammar school and go on to university there will be many more left behind at the local secondary believing they weren't good enough.

He could of course try to transform himself into a more conservative Conservative — championing an EU referendum and big tax cuts and withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights and new grammar schools and no gay marriage and no more onshore wind farms, and so on.

He is now restoring credibility to Tory education policy after the grammar schools fiasco - although some of the more striking of his policy announcements owe much to the under - acknowledged work of David Willetts.

The Tories do sometimes legislate for things that Labour would have done anyway, like get rid of Grammar schools, build more houses etc (not sure what SSM is), but their basic impulse is to resist progress.

We will hear more about grammar schools at the Tory conference this week.

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More importantly, the director successfully conveys the period setting, one that will seem familiar to anyone who has ever attended a Catholic grammar school.