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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.

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».

The same analysis also found that pupils from poorer backgrounds who performed just as well as their more well off peers were still less likely to attend grammars, with 66 per cent of children who achieve level five in both English and Maths at Key Stage 2 who are not eligible for free school meals going to a grammar school compared with 40 per cent of similarly high achieving children who are eligible for free school meals.

«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.»

And of course it tended to perpetuate class divisions, as better - off kids with better - educated parents were much more apt to make it into (and want to enter) the grammar schools.

The variety of educational institutions found in the UK now, with three different kinds of academies, four major types of maintained schools, as well as independent and grammar schools, means there is even more distinct variations in approaches to teaching and learning, ethos and goals.

Half of academies sponsored by grammar schools are rated as requiring improvement or inadequate, casting doubt on the effectiveness of government plans to get more selective schools running other nearby schools.

The Colonial Act of 1647, also known as the Old Deluder Satan law, mandated that every town with more than fifty households would hire a teacher, and once a town had more than 100 families, a grammar school would have to be established.

«In the areas where there are more places, the benefits are going to be more diluted for those children in the grammar schools, as they become more like mixed ability schools.»

Secondary schools in areas where the brightest pupils are selected for grammar schools will be more likely to be classed as coasting under the government's newly revealed definitions.

The research, which is published with the Sutton Trust's response to the government's consultation on providing more good school places, raises serious concerns about using grammar schools in their current form as a vehicle for social mobility.

More than 100 Tory MPs are expected to back scrapping the ban on new grammar schools as a campaign launches this week to secure the change now Theresa May is in Number 10.

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.

Head teachers are giving evidence to a committee set up to tackle social mobility in Kent grammar schools as councillors admit more should be done.

In areas where there are large numbers of grammar schools, such as Kent, Medway, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, many schools lose more than a fifth of their potential bright pupils to grammars.

«That's why our consultation on creating more good school places in more parts of the country includes proposals to scrap the ban on new grammar schools — on the strict condition they improve the education of other pupils in the system — as well as harnessing the expertise and resources of our universities, and our independent and faith schools.»

These schools will be led by high - performing institutions, including a grammar - school - led multi-academy trust (MAT) and the largest state boarding school in the country, demonstrating how existing high - performing schools can help raise attainment more widely, as set out in the government's education proposals.

He looks to grammars as offering a challenge to the even more unfair dominance of private schools.

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Disadvantaged Indian pupils were four times more likely than disadvantaged white British pupils to attend a grammar school, while disadvantaged Chinese pupils were 15 times as likely.

And we know that disadvantaged pupils from grammar schools are almost twice as likely to go to a top Russell Group university as those from more affluent comprehensive schools.

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.

Although some grammar schools do have catchment areas, these tend to be wider than those of nearby comprehensives, and as a result being able to send your child to a grammar school is less likely to depend on your ability to afford to live nearby, especially if it's in a more expensive area.

In the consultation we are asking how we can make grammars more open to disadvantaged children and ensure that the excellence that exists in grammar schools can play a stronger role in school improvement throughout the system, as that is also part of what we should be doing.

Research by Policy Exchange shows that, as of 2012, just three of the 164 remaining grammar schools had 10 per cent or more pupils eligible for free school meals.

Research has previously shown that differences in cultural and social capital can have repercussions in areas as diverse as use of language by the time children enter school, preferential access to grammar and faith schools, the type of characteristics parents value when choosing schools, the kind of studies children undertake and their access to more prestigious universities, or even the adoption of cultural practices linked to substantial cognitive gains like reading for pleasure.