Sentences with phrase «mobility at the grammars»
Kent County Council leader Paul Carter said social mobility at the grammars was «not where we would like it to be».
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The paper illuminates his backing for new grammar schools (May has at least one former minister on side with this policy it seems) coupled with concentrating on non-graduate routes into professions, encouraging kids to start - up businesses, among other ideas to improve social mobility.
However, responses were mixed when it came to grammar's effect on social mobility: 35 per cent held the view that grammars improve social mobility, while 19 per cent thought they damaged social mobility and a further 27 per cent believed they made no difference at all (20 per cent of respondents said they didn't know).
While 23 per cent of people polled believed that grammar schools should be forced to accept children of all abilities, 35 per cent said they believed that grammars improve social mobility, with only 19 per cent thinking they damage social mobility and a further 27 per cent saying they make no difference at all.
They say 95 per cent of pupils in Surrey are already at good or outstanding schools, and that there is no evidence that grammar schools have any positive impact on social mobility.
The same analysis for secondary schools shows grammar schools, academically selective at age 11, are by far the most biased towards more affluent pupils -LRB--98.8 percentage points)-- suggesting they aren't quite the «engines of social mobility» some grammar school advocates say they are.
«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.
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.