Sentences with phrase «state grammar schools»

«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.

Asked if they would support the introduction of some new state grammar schools, especially in urban areas where there currently are none, 76 % supported the idea, 17 % opposed it and 6 % didn't know.

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Any such measures would overwhelmingly help good state grammar, faith and other schools in rich areas and not those pupils from genuinely worse social backgrounds.

Grammar schools are state secondary schools, which select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the «11 Plus».

There are no state grammars in Wales or Scotland and although some retain the name «grammar school», they are non-selective and have no special status.

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».

The UBA account details disclosed that it was opened in the name of Imoseni Paul of Oke Old Aloforhai Street, Oke Old Grammar School, Benin City, Edo State, with GSM number 08132352808.

However, a party spokesman insisted Mr Grieve had not said anything which contradicts official Conservative policy, which states the party would not close down existing grammar schools in areas such as Buckinghamshire and Kent.

Others are Government Junior College, Ketu - Epe; Epe Junior Grammar School, Epe; Lagos State Model Junior College, Kankon; Lagos State Model Junior College, Ojo; and Badagry Junior Grammar School, Badagry

The Model Colleges / Upgraded Schools are: State Model Junior College, Meiran; Vetland Junior Grammar School, Ifako Ijaiye; Lagos State Model Junior College, Igbokuta; Lagos State Civil Service Model Junior College, Igbogbo; Oriwu Model Junior College, Ikorodu; Government Junior College, Ikorodu; Eva Adelaja Memorial Junior Secondary School, Bariga; Lagos State Model Junior College, Badore; Lagos State Model Junior College, Igbonla; and Lagos State Model Junior College, Agbowa.

A party for those whose priorities include the Welfare State, workers» rights, trade unionism, the co-operative movement, consumer protection, strong communities, conservation rather than environmentalism, fair taxation, full employment, public ownership, proper local government, a powerful Parliament, the monarchy, the organic Constitution, national sovereignty, civil liberties, the Union, the Commonwealth, the countryside, grammar schools, traditional moral and social values, economic patriotism, balanced migration, a realist foreign policy, and a base of real property for every household to resist both over-mighty commercial interests and an over-mighty State.

Five pupils of Ireti Grammar School, Falomo, Lagos State, involved in the attempted rape of two female pupils from Falomo Senior High School, will be arraigned in court today (Thursday).

He was principal of a grammar school at North Germantown and was employed in the finance bureau of the New York State Department of Public Instruction from 1898 to 1904.

Abia — Ibeku High School Adamawa — Command Secondary School Akwa Ibom — Christ The King College Anambra — Igwebuike Grammar School Bauchi — Government Day Secondary School Bayelsa — Bishop Dimi Grammar School Benue — 72 SF BN Borno — Command Day Secondary School Cross River — Command Children School Cross River — Godwin Alli Cantonment Delta — West End Mixed Secondary School Ebonyi — Command Children School Edo — Army Children School Edo — NASEME Nichoho Barracks Ekiti — Christ School Enugu — Command Day Secondary School Abuja — Command Day Secondary School Abuja — Army Day Secondary School Gombe — Government Secondary School Imo — Command Children School Jigawa — Jigawa State Polytechinic Kaduna — Command Children School Kaduna — Command Children School Kaduna — Nigerian Army School of Artillery Kano — Command Children School Katsina — Natsinta Day Secondary School Kebbi — Nagari College Kogi — Command Children School Kogi — Kogi State University Kwara — Command Children School Lagos — Command Day Secondary School Lagos — Ojo Cantonment Nasarawa — Government Secondary School Niger — Command Children School Ogun — Army Children School Ondo — Army Children School Osun — Oshogbo Grammar School Oyo — Command Day Secondary School Plateau — Command Children School Rivers — Command Children School Sokoto — Command Children School Taraba — Government Teachers College Yobe — Government Day Secondary School Zamfara — Gusau Secondary School.

In the latter two cases, the schools involved — London Oratory, and St Olave's grammar in Kent — were actually state - funded.

It has a beautiful heritage of excellent schools including Dr Are's GCI, Loyola College, Ibadan, Olivet Baptist High School, Ibadan Grammar School, Yejide Girls, St Annes, St Teresa's and Maryway Grammar School, but Oyo State can not even maintain these schools!

The media whirlwind began when newly appointed Education Secretary Justine Greening said the government should be «open minded» about the opening of new grammar schools - state funded schools that select pupils based on an examination at age 11.

MPs David Davis and Liam Fox, who have been vocal supporters of grammar schools, now make up part of the cabinet as Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union and Secretary of State for International Trade, raising campaigners hopes that now may be the best chance to overturn the block on new grammar schools.

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.

Kenny's medal - winning cycling teammates were also largely state educated, with 92 per cent attending either a comprehensive or grammar school.

He has 10 years of experience as a former high school teacher in the United States, teaching writing, grammar, and literature at a top secondary institution in the country.

However, the Grammar School Heads» Association revealed more details surrounding grammars, stating that they could be open by 2020.

The general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Mary Bousted, has criticised the move to bring in grammar schools, calling it an «irresponsible waste of money», stating that government spending pledges were «totally insufficient» to tackle the wider funding crisis in schools.

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.

According to the News and Star, after Kirby Stephen Grammar School failed their report, headteacher Ruth Houston and chairman of the governing body, Simon Bennett, sent a letter to parents stating that they believed the decision was «a failing of the inspection system, not the school, if an overall judgement is defined by a lack of a fence or not enough locks on doors, rather than the excellent teaching, leadership, behaviour and outcomes of the school.&School failed their report, headteacher Ruth Houston and chairman of the governing body, Simon Bennett, sent a letter to parents stating that they believed the decision was «a failing of the inspection system, not the school, if an overall judgement is defined by a lack of a fence or not enough locks on doors, rather than the excellent teaching, leadership, behaviour and outcomes of the school.&school, if an overall judgement is defined by a lack of a fence or not enough locks on doors, rather than the excellent teaching, leadership, behaviour and outcomes of the school.&school.»

New research suggests that grammar schools do not perform any better than non-selective state schools.

The best schools in England fall into three main groups: independent schools, grammar schools, and top performing comprehensive state schools, which are in theory open to all (subject to certain conditions of geographical proximity or religious faith).

Through football tournaments, The Manchester Grammar School aims to bring opportunities to schools, especially those in the state sector, to enjoy a different style of competition and to open up compe...

Grammar schools - state - funded schools that select pupils on the basis of ability - are facing increasing pressure to become more socially inclusive, amid government plans to increase the number of them.

Only state - funded schools that are grammar schools can select by ability at age 11, but this rule does not apply at 16.

There are no state grammars in Wales or Scotland, and although some retain the name «grammar school», they are non-selective and have no special status.

Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means of an examination taken by children at age 11, known as the «11 - plus».

There are only about 163 grammar schools in England, out of some 3,000 state secondaries, and a further 69 grammar schools in Northern Ireland.

This boys» school dates back to 1677 and has previously been a charity and then a state - funded grammar school.

It answers these questions by looking the attendance of grammar schools by different socio - economic and ethnic groups; examining access to grammars for disadvantaged students and those from Just About Managing families, along with examining the proportion of privately educated pupils vis - à - vis state educated pupils.

There are about 24,000 state schools in England and only 164 of these are grammar schools.

Grammar schools perform no better than non-selective state schools, once their pupils» higher ability and wealth is taken into account, a study suggests.

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.

In another exchange, Carlton Huffman, a legislative aide for GOP state Rep. Jonathan Jordan, forwarded a student's email to the legislative aides for Republican House members with the comment, «More great grammar results from the public school system.»

She went to a state primary, an independent school and then a grammar that became a comprehensive.

State Sen. Debbie Clary, a Republican who represents the Rutherford County area, had forwarded some of the jokes made by legislators about the schoolchildren's grammar to Rutherford County School Superintendent Janet Mason to show her what was being said about the schoolchildren and to urge the students to either stop writing or at least use proper grammar.

Among the other recommendations, which are due to go before the full council in July, are suggestions that grammar schools help pupils with the cost of uniforms, school trips and provide more links with state primary schools.

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.

«Because of that we've now got this embarrassing situation where [Secretary of State for Education] Nicky Morgan has one of her flagship councils having to admit that their grammar schools are not working for social mobility,» he said.

He proposed that private schools (yes — different to grammar schools) should partner with state schools to offer resources to a partner school in the state sector that are not at their disposal.

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

The smoke of battle obscured the significance of how much energy and attention, from a Conservative - headed government, was focused on raising standards in non-selective state schools, with almost no diversionary forays into grammar schools, voucher schemes or funding private places.

Research for the Sutton Trust suggests other state schools in England take twice the rate of smart, poor pupils compared to grammar schools.

Our state education system should not be fragmented with religious selective / grammar selective schools.

You appear to be saying selection to state grammars is not a good idea but selection for private schools is OK.