Sentences with phrase «selection of grammar»

The report also looked at the impact the academic selection of grammar schools had on other schools that the grammar pupils could have gone to.

A great selection of Grammar revision materials for Latin.

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The government wants to review the system for abolishing grammar schools to make it easier for parents to get rid of selection locally.

The government may also make it easier for grammar schools to become academies, allowing schools to retain an element of selection and helping the government meet its target for 400 new academies.

Meanwhile discussions elsewhere reached consensus on disability rights, taking competition out of the NHS, tribunal fees, legal aid, zero - hours and short - hours contracts, agency workers, immigration, local government funding, housing, the Middle East, the minimum wage, the living wage, Royal Mail, the railways, science and technology, mental health, fracking, animal welfare, Lords reform, reducing smoking and consumption of alcohol, fats and sugar, reaffirming all - women shortlists, youth services, careers advice, sexual and relationship education, and even the 11 - plus (recognising that selection at age 11 damaged education for all children, but stopping short of abolishing existing grammar schools).

«We are aware that neither the grammar schools ballots legislation, nor the provisions that allow governing bodies of grammar schools to bring forward proposals to remove selection, apply directly to academies, but we will ensure we mirror the current situation, within the funding agreement, for maintained grammar schools which have converted to become academies.»

Pushing for academic selection to drive up educational standards has been a key pillar of Tory policy for decades, but David Cameron's new - look party has shifted support for grammar schools.

On Mrs May's policy platform, some 51 % of respondents said grammar schools are «good for social mobility,» although only 47 % backed grammar selection through the 11 - plus exam.

In his recent book Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong (HarperCollins), Hauser argues that millions of years of natural selection have molded a universal moral grammar within our brains that enables us to make rapid decisions about ethical dilemmas.

Theresa May has spoken out about possible plans to lift the ban on opening new grammar schools in England, saying she want to bring «an element of selection» back into the education system.

Only six out of 152 local authority areas in England would benefit from expanded selection and opening new grammar schools, according to new research from the Education Policy Institute (EPI).

Includes 26 «boxes» each containing a selection of test - style questions based around a certain grammar or punctuation area.

Below is a selection of various grammar points in PPT and word formats for A Level students.

A bundle of six workbooks suitable for KS1, story starts, grammar, writing tasks, selection of word mats and an Easter Workbook.

He said that the role of grammars and selection was being «dramatically overplayed» and were not the way to raise standards.

Professor Liz Todd, professor of education inclusion of Newcastle University, said that the figures raised questions over the new policy for expanding selection and suggested opening new grammar schools would lead to an expansion of the private tuition market.

Additionally, respondents were critical of the evidence for the government's new eduction plans, as 81 per cent said they believed there is no evidence for opening grammar schools and 79 per cent believed there is no evidence for increasing selection in education.

We are committed to fighting all forms of academic selection, and phasing out grammar schools in areas where they now operate.

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.

The heads have told the prime minister that the current comprehensive system delivers high standards and that this will be put at risk by the return of a grammar system and selection by ability.

The poll found that 79 per cent of teachers believe there is no good evidence for increasing selection in education, and 81 per cent believe there is no evidence for opening new grammar schools.

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.

A leading campaigner for the expansion of selection during David Cameron's tenure as prime minister, Brady became a prominent cheerleader for Theresa May's plans to open the first new grammar schools in decades when they were announced last year.

The focus of the policy on the so - called «bright poor» has drawn comparisons with the government's botched attempt to open new grammar schools in the last Parliament, and is thought to be a compromise for supporters of selection in Greening's party.

«I believe that selection, in new, 21st Century state grammar schools, will add to the options available to young people, to truly help make the most of their talents.

Not only have the Conservatives dropped their commitment to build more grammars, they've also retained the absolute ban on the introduction of any further selection in the state sector.

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.

Ms Greening has said she is «prepared to be open - minded» about school selection, but signalled that this might not mean a return to the old pattern of grammars and secondary moderns.

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.

Congress opposes the expansion of selection in England's schools by whatever means either through the establishment of new grammar schools, or by allowing free schools to select some of their intake.

The polling of public opinion is ambiguous — in the same poll people said they wanted grammar schools but they didn't want selection.

Evidence shows pupil selection lowers the attainment of the children who do not get into grammar schools.

All new schools are now opened as free schools - but if the government lifts the ban on expanding selection, some of the # 320m could be used for new selective schools or to expand existing grammars.

The issue of grammar schools has long been a faultline within the Tory party, although Michael Gove as education secretary had moved the party well away from supporting selection.

The same data shows that the attainment of pupils at secondary moderns — which are non-selective schools that exist alongside grammar schools in areas which still have selection — is lower than that of comprehensive pupils.

Campaigners who oppose the expansion of academic selection are «exploring the possibility of legal action» over government plans to encourage existing grammar schools to expand.

Lets refer to the Conservative idea as «reintroducing secondary modern schools» not» reintroducing grammar schools» as this would be the reality of selection for most of our children It would also result in an expansion of the independent sector as middle class parents paid to keep their children out of secondary modern schools.

Becky Allen, director of Education Datalab, speaking at a rally in London last week to oppose grammar schools, said: «I think [the government] could circumvent the need for legislation to go down this route of selection within MATs.»

But free schools are non-selective and are officially described as» «all - ability» schools, so can't use the academic selection processes of grammar schools».

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In one case I came across, the first stage of selection for an employer's electrical engineering scheme was to screen out people with poor grammar.