Sentences with phrase «new selective schools»

Now campaigners are worried that others will use the expansion fund to open new selective schools by the back door.

The grammar school debate is firmly back on the agenda thanks to a burgeoning campaign by Conservative MPs to lift the ban on new selective schools.

Last month, grammar head teachers met education ministers to consider how new selective schools could operate.

But there are no indications of the scale of such a project or how many new selective schools might be opened.

This perception has now infected the Government or why would it be so keen to suggest new selective schools?

Allow new selective schools, which would have to be set up in response to local demand.

But aren't those against new selective schools saying that those who can not afford private school and those who can not get into the few grammar schools will have no choice at all?

A key driver for the government in opening new selective schools is to ensure that they take in more poor pupils and will not disadvantage students, the government has said.

«We want to look at how we can ensure new selective schools prioritise the admission of pupils from lower income households and support other local pupils in non-selective schools to help raise standards.»

Greening also declined to confirm the number of new selective schools that could be introduced, citing that decisions would be made at a local level.

This approach would allow it to gather expressions of interest and prepare to open new selective schools in this parliament, but delay the vote on the ban until after May 2020 when it would be easier to get through.

The 1997 ban on new selective schools brought a truce.

It was revealed on Wednesday that ministers had invited grammar school leaders to apply for # 150m over three years for new selective school places.

grammar streams» as it prepares for potential legal action over de facto new selective schools created using admissions loopholes.

Michael Gove has today backtracked on his historical resistance to new selective schools by saying the prime minister's plans to expand grammars is «right» and will «spread excellence»...

Respondents «expected the government to ensure that there was a clear business case for expansion in each case», while some said new selective schools should be opened only in areas of social deprivation.

A white paper confirming the government's plans will be followed by legislation in the next parliamentary session to remove the ban on new selective schools which was put in place by Tony Blair in 1998.

Whatever happens with the legislation preventing new selective schools we will be keen to guard against an increase in annexe grammar expansion, and other covert means to expand selection.

According to Philip Johnson march 2012 Telegraph: «Whenever pollsters ask the public if they want new selective schools, 70 per cent or more say yes.

She has previously backed a grammar school's proposal to open a new «annexe» in her Maidenhead constituency, while her chief of staff Nick Timothy has been quoted as supporting new selective schools in the past.

On the matter of the # 50 million put aside to expand grammar schools, Young claimed the unexpected election result meant that while more new selective schools were unlikely, the cash could still be used to allow grammar schools to expand satellite sites.

The release of the picture on Twitter has prompted calls for an urgent statement to Parliament about the government's plans, and speculation about how ministers might go about lifting the ban on new selective schools imposed by Tony Blair's government in the 1990s.

According to the GSHA, ministers reportedly still want to see pupils from the top 25 per cent of achievers attend comprehensive schools, but expect new selective schools to have a «narrower ability range» — closer to 10 per cent.

Mrs May, who herself attended a grammar school which became a comprehensive school while she was there, is thought to be a supporter of new selective schools.

Among those watching closely and awaiting the decision are councillors and council officials in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, who have been hatching their own plans for a grammar school, despite a ban on opening new selective schools brought in under Tony Blair.

All new schools are now opened as free schools - but if the government lifts the ban on expanding selection, some of the # 320m could be used for new selective schools or to expand existing grammars.

However, Schools Week revealed last October that unions had pledged to explore legal action if academy trusts attempted to create new selective schools without new legislation.

Scrapping the ban on opening new selective schools was a key pledge in the Conservative manifesto for this month's general election, but after failing to secure a working majority the party's pledge looks set to be dropped.

The Department for Education said thousands were missing out on a place at a grammar because of the current ban on new selective schools.

In many cases, respondents in favour of massively widening access were «opposed to new selective schools in general, and said they would be supportive only if they were made available almost exclusively to lower income pupils», the report said.

She outlined plans to «relax the restrictions that stop selective schools from expanding» and argued that it was «illogical to make it illegal to open good new schools» and said it denied parents «the right to have a new selective school opened where they want one».

In addition to this, it revealed that the government still wants to see the «top 25 per cent pupils» in comprehensive schools, with the new selective schools having a smaller ability range of «more like top 10 per cent».

«We'll be saying to grammar schools and people who want to set up a new selective school, actually if you're doing that we will want you to show that you are genuinely reaching out across society in giving those opportunities to young people.»

She also said that the plans will not mean a new grammar school in every town and people wanting to set up a new selective school will be required to show that they are genuinely reaching out into communities and working to give opportunities to young people from poorer backgrounds.

If you have got an incredibly diverse market of school providers in a particular county or city then I think it's arbitrary to say there shouldn't be a new selective school, if that's what parental demand suggests should happen.»

According to the document, new selective schools are likely to be opened as free schools and could potentially enrol students in 2020.

So I want to relax the restrictions that stop selective schools from expanding, that deny parents the right to have a new selective school opened where they want one, and that stop existing non-selective schools to become selective in the right circumstances and where there is demand.»

«They could, as a condition of opening a new selective school, be asked to establish a good, new non-selective school.

Speaking at the Academy Ambassadors conference, Gibb praised the «Schools that work for everyone» consultation and said that plans to open new selective schools and allow existing schools to become selective would «widen choice» and bring «more flexibility» to England's education system.

A new Selective School Expansion Fund will be allocated # 50 million for 2018 - 19, with details of the remaining # 150 million to be announced later.

According to the report, a large number of participants suggested that new selective schools «should be facilitated only where there is a local need and clear demand from parents».

Mrs Morgan said the ban on new grammars would remain under a «statutory prohibition» passed by Labour in 1998 on new selective schools.

Or perhaps she'll sanction what's already happening — behind - the - scenes manoeuvring to set up new selective schools.

It said: «Our new approach would ensure any new selective schools prioritise the admission of pupils from lower income households or support other local pupils in non-selective schools to help raise standards.

An analysis of pupil numbers by the BBC showed the equivalent of 11 new selective schools had been created since 2010 as existing schools had expanded.

New selective schools would have to show they were «genuinely reaching out across society» and taking children from a range of backgrounds, Mrs May said.

Schools Week reported at least ten selective areas were preparing for expansion applications — before new Prime Minister Theresa May announced plans to scrap the law banning new selective schools.

New selective schools should only be allowed within multi-academy trusts so that youngsters can «move around» between vocational and academic routes to keep their options open, a leading...