Sentences with phrase «remaining grammar schools»

Research by Policy Exchange shows that, as of 2012, just three of the 164 remaining grammar schools had 10 per cent or more pupils eligible for free school meals.

Research in 2012 showed that the majority of remaining grammar schools took less than 3 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals — many took less than 1 per cent.

And there's no doubt that the remaining grammar schools produce very solid academic results — though it's hard to separate that from their admission practices.

Not exact matches

Almost all the few Catholic grammar schools that remained became independent and entirely fee paying.

In two counties where there are grammar schools, numbers have remained relatively high, reaching 1,429 in Kent and 1,191 in Essex.

Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the Conservative governments were content to permit the inconsistent situation to continue, although Labour in opposition remained hostile to the surviving grammar schools - yet in 1996, Tony Blair stated, «the 160 grammar schools that there are, let them remain».

Given that Remain MPs far outweigh Leave ones, it is possibly May will do a deal with some of them to grant a vote on Article 50 in exchange for support on some of her other controversial proposals, such as grammar schools or Heathrow expansion.

The remaining members were: Mandy Nayton CEO of the Dyslexia SPELD Foundation; Professor Pamela Snow, Head of the La Trobe Rural Health School; Steven Capp, principal of Bentleigh West Primary School; Professor Geoff Prince, Director of the Australian Mathematical Sciences Institute; and Allason McNamara, a mathematics teacher at Trinity Grammar, Victoria, and President of the Australia Association of Mathematics Teachers.

Greening also said in her written ministerial statement, that the spelling and grammar test for seven - year - olds introduced in 2015 - 16 is to remain non-compulsory for schools next year.

While no plans have been officially announced, a Telegraph report suggested that Prime Minister Theresa May was planning to lift the 1998 ban on opening new grammar schools and Education Secretary Justine Greening has said the government should remain «open minded» to the idea.

It remains to be seen if / when an official announcement regarding grammar schools will be made, but this leak suggests it is on the DfE's agenda.

The controversial education bill unveiled in this year's Queen's speech has been dropped, but grammar school proposals remain on the agenda

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

But Graham Brady, Conservative MP and advocate of grammar schools, says that the remaining grammars show the high standards that such schools can achieve.

That could also hit upon another reason that grammar schools have remained so stubbornly in the headlines.

Grammar schools have returned to our political debate, and I am hoping they remain a topic of debate, filling the summer gap, rather than an item of policy.

Finally, age adjustments are used for entry exams to many grammar schools, yet there remains a disproportionately lower number of summer born children who are successful.

Little might have changed if pupil numbers remained flat, as the political cost of either creating new grammar schools or of trying to remove the system in the parts of England where it remains would be too high.

What remains to be seen, however, is whether this personal support of grammar schools will translate into national policy, and May's choice of education secretary could be the first indicator of a decision in this area.

Mr King, head teacher of Leicester Grammar School, says marking remains a «cottage industry» that is unable to cope with the scale and stresses of the modern exam system.