Sentences with phrase «on more grammar schools»

Damian Hinds» appointment shows the prime minister has not given up on more grammar schools despite lack of enthusiasm by experts or voters

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For every one child that might successfully make it through a grammar school and go on to university there will be many more left behind at the local secondary believing they weren't good enough.

He could of course try to transform himself into a more conservative Conservative — championing an EU referendum and big tax cuts and withdrawal from the European Convention on Human Rights and new grammar schools and no gay marriage and no more onshore wind farms, and so on.

Powell has said that selective education «creates barriers for disadvantaged children» and has called on Prime Minister Theresa May to rethink proposals to allow more grammar schools to open.

More than 100 Conservative Party MPs are expected to call for the ban on new grammar schools to be scrapped, according to a report from the Telegraph.

Only 38 per cent of people believe that the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, according to a YouGov poll.

«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.»

Although an official announcement is yet to be made, it is thought Prime Minister Theresa May is considering opening new grammar schools and the rumours have been given more validity after a leaked memo written by Department for Education (DfE) permanent secretary Jonathan Slater seemed to confirm grammars were on the DfE's agenda.

Public Opinion A YouGov poll found that only 38 per cent of people believe the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, which suggests there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea.

The Commission has called on the government to rethink its plans for grammar schools and more academies, cautioning that there is no evidence either works to improve social mobility.

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.

Committee chair, Neil Carmichael, said that since the plans for more grammars had been announced «the air has been thick with the sound of claims and counter-claims on the benefits and disadvantages of grammar schools».

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.

Grammar schools - state - funded schools that select pupils on the basis of ability - are facing increasing pressure to become more socially inclusive, amid government plans to increase the number of them.

Barry Sindall, chief executive of the Grammar School Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make - up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer faGrammar School Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make - up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer famSchool Heads Association, quoted from a 2008 Sutton Trust study which suggested that the social make - up of grammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer fagrammar schools was often more diverse than that of the top 100 comprehensives where entrance is decided on proximity to the school, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer famschool, pushing up house prices and excluding poorer families.

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.

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.

But this research, based on the detailed results of nearly 550,000 pupils, suggests once the ability and social background of pupils is taken into account, grammar schools are no more or less effective than other schools.

Northern Ireland's 66 grammar schools tend not to prioritise pupils on free school meals, but they are more socially inclusive anyway, with a higher proportion of pupils from poorer backgrounds.

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.

The government wants to allow successful academies, including grammar schools, to take on more pupils and is consulting on changes.

«But we know there is more to do, and that's precisely why we have set out plans to make more good school places available, to more parents, in more parts of the country - including scrapping the ban on new grammar school places, and harnessing the resources and expertise of universities, independent and faith schools.»

«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.»

A Department for Education spokeswoman said: «The government consultation puts forward proposals to allow more grammar school places to be created, making them a realistic choice for more parents, but only on the basis that strict conditions are met to ensure this also contributes to the improvement of other parts of the school system.»

She tells BBC Radio 4's The World at One that she is in favour of more grammar schools saying they «are a welcome addition to the choice on offer to parents» and that they will be «a 21st century model of grammar school».

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «The Sutton Trust itself has highlighted the positive impact grammar schools can have on pupils from less well - off backgrounds and that's exactly why we want more young people to benefit.

We want to remove the restrictive regulations that are preventing more children from going to high - quality faith schools, and we want to end the ban on the opening of new grammar schools.

I really welcome the points in the Government's Green Paper on widening access so that more children have a chance to attend excellent grammar schools.

I do not think that it is tenable in a country that has grammars and selection for the Opposition to say they do not like that situation, but that they do not want us to take any steps whatever to see how we can deliver more strongly on social mobility through the schools already in place.

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.

He added that there was a risk that pupils in areas with large numbers of selective places, more grammar schools would «reduce the results achieved by poorer children» on average.

Gibb was probed on whether the government should remove a ban on new grammar schools, thought to be something being weighed up by Prime Minister Theresa May, in front of an audience of more than 4,000 educationalists at the Teach First Impact Conference in Leeds today.

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.

We are currently hearing more horrific details of the child abuse that went on for decades at the Knox Grammar School, and the indifference of the former head master, who did little or nothing when these events were made known to him.