Sentences with phrase «places at grammar schools»

Northern Ireland's consistently higher performance - it has improved again - has been put down to its system of selective schools, where pupils are tested at the age of 11 and the brighter ones get places at grammar schools.

My grandfather, Joe, whose own circumstances (he was sent down the mines at 14 to support his family despite having gained a place at grammar school) made me very conscious that I should make the most of any opportunities granted to me.

Not exact matches

Weekly circuit sessions take place at Manchester Grammar School every Tuesday, 6.15 - 7.15 pm, it's a great way to build up your core strength.

The scheme's critics argued that Specialist Schools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgSchools encouraged segregation in education, insofar as the middle class parents who were long best placed to ensure favourable outcomes from school admissions regimes of grammar schools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools would continue to be able to get their children into the better schools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgschools, at the expense of those from poorer and socially excluded backgrounds.

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».

John Howson, recruitment expert and honorary research fellow at the University of Oxford, described grammar schools as «a product of the nineteenth century that lingered overlong into the twentieth and have no place in the modern world» and said that to introduce new grammar schools without a comprehensive education plan would be «unbelievably short - sighted».

In a blog post John Howson, an honorary research fellow at the University of Oxford, described grammar schools as «a product of the nineteenth century that lingered overlong into the twentieth and have no place in the modern world» and said that to introduce new grammar schools without a comprehensive education plan would be «unbelievably short - sighted».

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

We're looking very carefully at our admissions code, which has already changed to allocate places for pupil premium [additional funding for schools to raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils] and other disadvantage indicators, and overcome the stigma from some families that grammar schools are not for them.»

An excellent place to start looking at the evidence on grammar schools is with the work of Newsnight's Chris Cook.

Interviews take place on site at The Manchester Grammar School.

«In the face of such overwhelming evidence, it therefore beggars belief that the Government has announced it will plough # 50 million to expand the number of places at existing selective grammar schools.

The government is at pains to say that the grammar proposal will be part of a wider reform, only one of many measures to maximise the number of good school places.

Yet of the state school pupils securing a place at Cambridge in 2015, 682 came from sixth - forms in comprehensive schools and 589 from grammar schools; in other words, almost as many come from the 163 grammar schools as come from all the 11 - 18 comprehensive schools put together.

Those children, at the top of those schools, do not have to compete with the children at the grammar, and they go on to compete very successfully and get good places at elite universities.

Children in grammars on free school meals are twice as likely to get five good GCSE grades, and so twice as likely to secure a place at and to attend one of the top Russell Group universities, as their wealthier peers who attend comprehensives.

It found that although pupils in grammar schools have higher average attainment at KS4, this is only because their schools cherry - picked them in the first place, as demonstrated by the fact that grammar schools do not drive up overall results in their areas, nor reduce the poverty gap.

In 1944 England established a tripartite education system which placed grammar schools at the top of the heap.