Sentences with phrase «more grammar schools in»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

He said: «An altogether more structured and systematic approach to learning grammar, spelling and punctuation in primary schools means children were becoming more confident in tackling challenging writing tasks».

A committee set up to tackle social mobility in Kent grammar schools will hear from seven head teachers amid councillors» fears that more should be done.

He said: «The Liberal Democrats are the party of education, and that means we believe in an excellent education for all, so any plans to bring in more divisive grammar schools will be utterly opposed by my party.

More than 1,000 adults took part in the online survey after the conservative party confirmed plans to expand grammar schools in its manifesto.

Grammar schools in Kent have been encouraged to provide up to 700 more places for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Speaking to the Guardian, Farron said: «The Liberal Democrats are the party of education, and that means we believe in an excellent education for all, so any plans to bring in more divisive grammar schools will be utterly opposed by my party.

A committee set up to tackle social mobility in Kent grammar schools will hear from head teachers amid fears that more should be done.

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.»

She said: «Teachers and heads in the thousands of existing state schools in the UK which are facing real - terms cuts in funding for their pupils will be dismayed to see the Chancellor throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools.

It will the first new grammar school to open in more than 50 years.»

In addition to this, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) general secretary, Mary Bousted, believes that the Chancellor is «throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools».

Under the new reforms grammar schools will be expected to offer lower pass marks for poorer pupils, let children sit tests in primary schools and venues near their home, and encourage more children to take the entry exams.

Speaking in London, while also announcing plans to open new grammar schools, May said the 50 per cent cap was an obstacle that was stopping more good faith schools opening and said that the government should «confidently promote» the role that faith schools play in a diverse school system.

There was also talks that the new grammars would be much more selective with pupils in comparison to traditional grammar schools.

At present, 80 per cent of high - achieving children from more affluent backgrounds in Kent attend grammar schools whereas in poorer families, it is only only 57 per cent.

Or, if we look at grammar schools or independent schools, many of which are not only selective but also more academic and less vocational which in itself can close off certain avenues for students.

Speaking to the Guardian, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government's social mobility commission, has said that grammars lead to social selection and warned that in England's current 163 selective state schools pupils were four or five times more likely to come from independent prep schools than from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

The Ofsted official has argued grammars» higher rating may be due to «more effective teaching», while Mr Widdows, deputy head teacher at Giles Acadamy in Lincolnshire, said the claim was an «insult» to teachers in other 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.

The existing funding system for grammar schools was criticised for being arbitrary and tending to give more money to city schools than those in suburbs and shire counties.

Education Secretary Justine Greening has published plans calling for more selective schools in England, and a Department for Education spokesman said any new grammars would «prioritise the admission of disadvantaged pupils».

Commenting on the Education Select Committee's report on the Government's case for creating new grammar schools, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said: «The Government has failed to provide evidence that more selection in schools will improve education for all children and not harm the majority.

Research author and associate director at EPI, Jo Hutchinson, said the decline in the benefits of grammar school education would be seen most in areas with more selection.

«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.&raquIn 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.&raquin the grammar schools, as they become more like mixed ability schools.»

There are 19 local authorities where more than 10 per cent of pupils are in grammar 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.

Rayner received a warm reception at the Association of School and College Leaders annual conference in Birmingham this afternoon, where she attacked plans for new grammar schools and called for money allocated for free schools to be spent «more fairly».

In fact, a pupil attending a private prep school is ten times more likely to enter a grammar than a pupil on free school meals.

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.

Before opening any more grammars, the government would have to change the law, which at present outlaws the creation of new grammar schools in England.

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.

But she said there would not be a return of a «binary system» of grammars and secondary moderns and that the changes were part of a package of reform, including greater involvement of universities and independent schools in the state system and the opening of more faith schools.

He found in this piece of research that children from prosperous families in Kent (the biggest area for selective schools in England) are more likely to get into grammar schools and also that in selective areas, poorer children overall get relatively worse GCSE results than they do in comprehensive areas.

In another exchange, Carlton Huffman, a legislative aide for GOP state Rep. Jonathan Jordan, forwarded a student's email to the legislative aides for Republican House members with the comment, «More great grammar results from the public school system.»

Yet many of the good and outstanding schools in Kent are grammars and, according to research from Education Datalab, grammar schools in this area are more likely to attract and retain many of the best teachers.

Grammar schools are more likely to be located in wealthier areas, but there appears to be no obvious link between their admission policies and how close they are to more deprived areas.

In Sevenoaks this September the first pupils will arrive at what is officially an annexe of the Weald of Kent grammar school more than 10 miles away.

Today's figures suggest pupils in grammar schools are more often taught by qualified, experienced teachers than those in schools with higher numbers of pupils from low - income families.

A consultation published by the government on Wednesday, examining how schools should support such «ordinary working families», shows affluent children are currently much more likely to take places in grammar schools.

In both cases they are likely to stick to the Conservative manifesto pledges: 500 more free schools, allow «good» schools to expand (including grammars), change funding structures.

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.

Sevenoaks is the only part of Kent without a grammar school, resulting in more than 1,100 pupils travelling 15 miles to Tunbridge Wells.

Among the other recommendations, which are due to go before the full council in July, are suggestions that grammar schools help pupils with the cost of uniforms, school trips and provide more links with state primary schools.

The Department for Education said there were no plans to end academic selection in grammars schools, but there may be more collaboration between them and non-selective schools.