Sentences with phrase «selective state schools»

Some highly selective state schools should do more to help poorer children pass their entrance exams, suggests a government - funded study.

This compared with about 40 % of entries from selective state schools and about 22 % of those from other state schools.

Nor is he in favour of selection or a return to grammar schools, Wilshaw will tell the audience in London, which will have been closely following the government's recent decision to approve the opening of the first new selective state school in 50 years, in Kent.

Colyton, one of seven selective state schools in Devon, has one of the best academic records in the UK.

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 report was produced on behalf of the Fair Admissions Campaign (FAC) and lists a string of violations to the admissions arrangements, committed by religious selective state schools.

Pupils at selective state schools made up even more than the independent sector, at 32 per cent for the top end of science.

And a large number of non-academically selective state schools were found to be more socially selective than grammar schools.

Meanwhile, teaching unions and activists condemned the move, with several groups already preparing for a sustained legal battle over a possible breach of the law banning the opening of new selective state schools.

Former universities minister David Willetts said the selective state schools benefited richer families and damaged social mobility.

Private and selective schools educate only a small minority of our children: there are only 164 selective state schools, and less than 7 % of the UK's children go to private schools.

Although it is common for private schools that used to be selective state schools to continue to use the name «grammar school», it is rarer for one that has not previously used the 11 - plus to undertake such a rebranding.

Independent schools, selective state schools and schools specialising in languages remain strong in this area, while in other state schools, fewer pupils are taking language GCSES, the organisation says.