Sentences with phrase «of grammar school boys»

This is now the era of grammar school boys and girls.

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The other major «Raj» nostalgia of the 1980s was the television serialisation The Jewel in the Crown, in which the villain — Ronald Merrick — was depicted as a sadistic deviant who happened to come from a lower middle class background, was a grammar school boy and a closet homosexual as well.

The late Harry Thompson who brought HIGNFY to TV made a conscious decision on his part to have Ian, the grammar school boy, on one side and Paul, the voice of the working class, on the other.

Terry Leahy, a working - class boy who gained educational mobility through a grammar school, went from the store floor to CEO of Tesco in 14 years.

However, former shadow home secretary David Davis recently criticised the abolition of grammar schools for creating a «dominance» of public school boys in top jobs which had «handicapped the intellectual capacity of the country».

The Tory - supporting commentator has called school wheelchair ramps a sign of «ghastly inclusivity» and once described working - class grammar school boys who secured places at Oxford as «universally unattractive» and «small, vaguely deformed undergraduates».

A grammar school boy from Essex who went on to work in law, he spent his first five years in parliament representing Hornchurch, but had to apply for a series of other seats as it was being abolished, eventually winning Old Bexley and Sidcup.

«Tories well ahead in two new opinion polls Main Public school boys run Britain says David Davis during a defence of grammar schools»

The head of Altrincham Grammar School for Boys, Tim Gartside, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he and his governors were considering asking for voluntary contributions of # 30 or # 40 a month from parents if the cuts took place.

A GRAMMAR school for boys has opened its new # 3.2 m sixth form centre which features a «striking» finish thanks to the specification of EQUITONE [tectiva] fibre cement facade material.

Holly Rose is a Year 7 - 12 science teacher and Assistant Director of Studies at Christ Church Grammar School, an independent K - 12 boys school in School, an independent K - 12 boys school in school in Perth.

Tintern Grammar's model offers a combination of single - sex and co-educational years, whereby co-educational sessions are offered in the early learning years, and then with girls and boys in separate classes through Junior and Middle Schools.

There was said to be backbench disquiet that the push for more selection had been sidelined - and there will be scrutiny of whether Mr Hinds, a former grammar school boy, will be more sympathetic.

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Before his appointment, Martin was Headmaster of Watford Grammar School for Boys.

Manchester Grammar School, a seven - to - 18 boys» school, had the greatest gap, as no women had received a bonus while 0.7 per cent of meSchool, a seven - to - 18 boys» school, had the greatest gap, as no women had received a bonus while 0.7 per cent of meschool, had the greatest gap, as no women had received a bonus while 0.7 per cent of men had.

After a number of heroic career failures (rock musician, herbalist, accountant) she succumbed to genetic pressure and became a French teacher for 12 years at a boys» grammar school in Leeds, and later taught a French Literature course at Sheffield University.

He was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey, and later read English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, during which time he was also employed as a community worker in Glasgow (1976).

He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey.

Comment: Gentlemen & Players is set inside the hallowed walls of St Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, an archaic establishment on the edge of an unnamed and unremarkable Northern English town (school motto: Audere, agere, auferre: To dare, to strive, to conSchool for Boys, an archaic establishment on the edge of an unnamed and unremarkable Northern English town (school motto: Audere, agere, auferre: To dare, to strive, to conschool motto: Audere, agere, auferre: To dare, to strive, to conquer).

For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years.

He was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey and then read English and Philosophy at the University of Kent, Canterbury, followed by a creative writing course at the University of East Anglia.

As a grammar school boy who can put the letters CBE behind his name, potter Perry has done fairly well out of his enslavement.

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Junior School has a proud and distinguished history of educating boys, blended with an outstanding 21st century learning environment;