News round-up: Toby Young wants more selection, and BBC report shows huge grammar school expansion
Toby Young calls for more selection in the school system Toby Young has called for UTCs and studio schools to operate selection ... Read more
Grammar school priority admissions fail to increase the proportions of disadvantaged pupils accessing schools
The BBC has today highlighted Comprehensive Future’s research into grammar school admission for disadvantaged pupils. A Freedom of Information (FOI) request sent ... Read more
‘Selection isn’t about better schools, it’s educational apartheid’
Our chair, Melissa Benn, is profiled in today's TES talking about her campaigning work for Comprehensive Future and her passion for a fully comprehensive ... Read more
Thirty-five grammar schools seek to expand, creating 5,000 selective places, the equivalent of seven new grammar schools
Comprehensive Future has discovered that one in five of England’s grammar schools, thirty-five selective schools, are preparing bids for the government’s £50 ... Read more
Grammar schools claim more than their fair share of Condition Improvement Fund expansion cash
At least 30 grammar schools are bidding for the new £50 million Selective School Expansion Fund, but we have discovered the government was ... Read more
Please tell these grammar schools you don’t want their expansions
At least thirty-five grammar schools are seeking a share of the £50 milllion Selective School Expansion Fund, and although it’s a condition ... Read more
Many grammar schools applying for expansion have no clear plans to improve admission for disadvantaged pupils
Thirty grammar schools are currently preparing bids for the government’s £50 million Selective School Expansion Fund, and half of the schools do not ... Read more
Parents and campaigners protest as selective schools apply for the £50 million expansion fund
A number of local groups have launched campaigns to highlight the problems with grammar schools expanding through the £50 million Selective School ... Read more
What to do with £50 million?
Dr.Alan Bainbridge So, here is the problem: how do you allow all young people fair and equal access to an ... Read more
The 11-plus / IQ fallacy
Tricia, who failed the 11-plus in 1959 and found that it changed the course of her life. Life is a ... Read more