Sentences with phrase «say more grammar schools»

Shadow attorney general Dominic Grieve appeared to break ranks to say more grammar schools should be built in his local area if there is demand.

Furthermore, he appears to have slipped into a U-turn - saying more grammar schools could be built 16 days after he started a Tory row by insisting there would be no more grammar schools.

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A Department for Education source said that the Queen's Speech was an unambiguous decision not to go ahead with creating more grammar schools.

Mr Farage said a number of his policies — such as one to bring back more grammar schools - appealed to Tory MPs who were slavishly voting «for a leader who appears to be more of a social democrat».

He said: «An altogether more structured and systematic approach to learning grammar, spelling and punctuation in primary schools means children were becoming more confident in tackling challenging writing tasks».

He said: «The Liberal Democrats are the party of education, and that means we believe in an excellent education for all, so any plans to bring in more divisive grammar schools will be utterly opposed by my party.

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.

Speaking to the Guardian, Farron said: «The Liberal Democrats are the party of education, and that means we believe in an excellent education for all, so any plans to bring in more divisive grammar schools will be utterly opposed by my party.

She said: «Teachers and heads in the thousands of existing state schools in the UK which are facing real - terms cuts in funding for their pupils will be dismayed to see the Chancellor throwing more money at free schools and grammar schools.

Jenny Whittle, chairman of the council's grammar schools and social mobility select committee, said: «We can't impose our recommendations, but I really do believe that there is a spirit of co-operation and a real willingness to see more children from poorer backgrounds benefit from a selective education.»

Speaking in London, while also announcing plans to open new grammar schools, May said the 50 per cent cap was an obstacle that was stopping more good faith schools opening and said that the government should «confidently promote» the role that faith schools play in a diverse school system.

Speaking to the Guardian, Alan Milburn, the former Labour cabinet minister who chairs the government's social mobility commission, has said that grammars lead to social selection and warned that in England's current 163 selective state schools pupils were four or five times more likely to come from independent prep schools than from the most disadvantaged backgrounds.

The Ofsted official has argued grammars» higher rating may be due to «more effective teaching», while Mr Widdows, deputy head teacher at Giles Acadamy in Lincolnshire, said the claim was an «insult» to teachers in other schools.

But Powell says that more than half of grammar - sponsored schools (53 per cent) and university - sponsored schools (57 per cent) are less than good.

«You might expect that where you have more grammar schools, you will have more of the really top students, that's not what we've seen,» said Mr Schleicher.

The government says that providing more grammar school places would give extra opportunities for poorer pupils.

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».

Education Secretary Justine Greening has published plans calling for more selective schools in England, and a Department for Education spokesman said any new grammars would «prioritise the admission of disadvantaged pupils».

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.

A Department for Education spokesman said: «We know that grammar schools provide a good education for their disadvantaged pupils, and we want more pupils from lower - income backgrounds to benefit from that.»

She said: «When we add more grammar school places to an area, these schools will have to fill their places with children who are further down the ability scale.

A Department for Education spokesperson said grammar schools provided «a good education for their disadvantaged pupils», adding: «we want more pupils from lower income backgrounds to benefit from that».

«Simply allowing more disadvantaged pupils to attend grammar schools will not create the systematic improvement needed for a world - class education system,» he said.

Research author and associate director at EPI, Jo Hutchinson, said the decline in the benefits of grammar school education would be seen most in areas with more selection.

Labour oppose the creation of more grammar schools saying that instead of improving equality, they make it worse.

But she said there would not be a return of a «binary system» of grammars and secondary moderns and that the changes were part of a package of reform, including greater involvement of universities and independent schools in the state system and the opening of more faith 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.

The same analysis for secondary schools shows grammar schools, academically selective at age 11, are by far the most biased towards more affluent pupils -LRB--98.8 percentage points)-- suggesting they aren't quite the «engines of social mobility» some grammar school advocates say they are.

The Department for Education said there were no plans to end academic selection in grammars schools, but there may be more collaboration between them and non-selective schools.

«We have serious issues about social mobility, in particular white working - class young people, and I don't think that having more grammar schools is going to help them,» he said.

Yet despite the DfE report stating that the PISA data «provided little support» to arguments that academic selection boost the progress of the most disadvantaged pupils, ministers said the PISA results support plans for more grammar schools.

«Pupils in grammar schools make significantly more progress relative to their similarly - able peers,» he said, adding that ministers wanted to ensure that children from disadvantaged backgrounds «have the opportunity to benefit from selective 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.»

KCC has said it is looking for better social mobility, allowing more children from all walks of life to get into grammar schools.

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».

But he also said the higher ratings given to grammar schools might be because their teaching was «more effective».

BBC Education Editor Branwen Jeffreys says the statement clears the way for draft plans to be brought forward, including Theresa May's proposals for more grammar schools in England.

Similarly only 61 per cent of respondents thought that grammar schools achieved the aim of producing children who are «confident and self - assured adults», only slightly more than the 58 per cent who said this about the secondary moderns.

Mary Bousted, the general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, accused the chancellor of «throwing more money at grammar schools», and said the government's spending pledges were «totally insufficient» to tackle the wider funding crisis in schools.

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.

He said he believed there was «overwhelming support from parents» for more grammar school places.

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.

Sir Michael said an «altogether more structured and systematic approach to learning grammar, spelling and punctuation» in primary schools meant children were «becoming more confident in tackling challenging writing tasks».

Councillor Brigid Jones, cabinet member for schools at Birmingham City Council, said that the policy of grammar schools «bending their admissions criteria» to allow more disadvantaged children showed the «absolute fallacy in the 11 - plus system».

He said grammar schools should look again at their admissions policies and ensure they were making provision for children from disadvantaged areas or with special needs, even if that means altering the entrance requirements, and do more outreach work in deprived areas.

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