Sentences with phrase «selective system»

These findings have been repeated formally time and again by researchers in different selective systems.

But Rod Welsh, head at St Edward's, told the council: «A return to a more selective system is highly likely to worsen outcomes for the majority of young people.»

Elites are usually supporting selective systems as it was a key to their own success.

Countries with low levels of selection, such as England and Canada, have similar levels of pupils who attain strong academic results despite their socio - economic disadvantage, as countries with highly selective systems such as Germany, according to the data.

A return to a more selective system is highly likely to worsen outcomes for the majority of young people

I'm thinking that, (if We do have politician representatives and not Direct Democracy), then maybe We could institute a selective system that would respond to the performance of the Office Holder to determine whether or not they should have another term or not.

A selective system concentrating talent in a few schools would not raise standards across the board or promote social equality, he argued.

«It's a very serious problem in these selective systems: they do tend to be captured by the better - informed, more affluent parents... They're doing the right thing for their kids but the trouble is social mobility suffers as a result.»

Implementing such a selective system would add to what already seems to be an exorbitant waste of resources in schools, as administrators spend more and more time observing and documenting teacher performance.

Contrary to current beliefs viewing gang structure as hierarchical and clan recruiting processes as rigorous, Red Gang members described their gang structure as a loose social network into which individuals drifted through friendships with current associates; similarly, gang leadership was said to be the result of personal dexterity — individuals ascended to command status because of their personal traits — rather than the outcome of a selective system imposed from above.

Speaking to the Today programme, Willets, who is now the chair of think tank the Resolution Foundation, suggested that the best school systems around the world do not use a selective system and that a return to a grammar system would not successfully raise standards for all children.

It's clear that most children will lose out in a selective system and most non-grammar schools will find it even harder to recruit.

Timothy did stress that although he supports lifting the ban, he did not want to see a return to a fully selective system, saying: «This isn't an argument for a full - on return to a selective system of grammars and secondary moderns.

Speaking to the Observer, Roskilly said that this was a trend that could already be seen in areas that operated a selective system, where parents used fee - paying schools as «insurance» incase their children failed to get into a grammar school.

He also referenced the fact that the attainment gap at GCSE level in Hackney between children on free school meals and those who are not is 14.6 per cent, compared to a 34 per cent gap in Kent, which operates a selective system.

Sir Michael Wilshaw told the Observer the selective system was not the way to make up ground on other nations.

In his foreword to the report, he said: «The challenge to the sector and for those areas where a selective system prevails is how to ensure that those grammar schools are open to all, and are not simply a preserve of better - off families who can afford private tutors or prep schools fees.»

«Northern Ireland has a selective system and they did worse than us in the (international comparison) table,» said the Ofsted chief.

The question of whether or not grammar schools are a good thing is one of the most divisive in the education policy sphere, so we have fact - checked some of the recent claims made by those who want to see a return to the selective system set up by Butler's education act in 1944.