Sentences with phrase «number of grammar schools»

There are also a significant number of grammar schools among the new - style academies.

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.

Some of the schools identified are in areas where there are a high number of grammar schools, including Kent, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, though non-selective schools elsewhere are also implicated.

«A significant number of grammar schools are looking at a very bleak financial future,» says Charlotte Martens, vice-chairman of the Grammar School Heads Association.

She has held on to the position despite differences with Theresa May over the Prime Minister's flagship policy to expand the number of grammar schools in England.

Theresa May's personal crusade to expand the number of grammar schools is in serious jeopardy today as senior Tory, Labour and Liberal Democrat MPs unite in an unprecedented cross-party campaign to kill off the prime minister's flagship education reform.

Greening was no enthusiast for the prime minister's push to expand the number of grammar schools and it is widely reported that the Conservatives are anxious to refresh their education policies.

Former Shadow Education Secretary Lucy Powell has said that the teacher crisis is «one of the biggest issues facing our schools», calling on the government to ditch the «terrible idea» of increasing the number of grammar schools and focus on the real problem.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT, said: «Increasing the number of grammar schools will lower standards and restrict opportunity.

It also found that proposals to increase the number of grammar school places in England were unlikely to improve attainment overall.

Russell Hobby, general secretary of the NAHT, said increasing the number of grammar schools would «lower standards and restrict opportunity».

«Until existing grammar schools demonstrate they can be vehicles for social mobility, the number of grammar schools should not be increased,» said Sir Peter.

The Government should focus on improving fair access to existing grammar schools before any expansion in the number of grammar schools.

It is clear that the academies are going to be threatened by the increase in the number of grammar schools.