£64 million spent on grammar schools that continue to fail disadvantaged pupils
The Selective School Expansion Fund (SSEF) offered two bidding rounds in 2018 and 2019 with £64 million invested in the expansion of ... Read more
New interactive map reveals the extent of education inequality in selective areas
Comprehensive Future has produced an interactive map of every grammar school in England. For the first time ever, hard-to-access facts about individual ... Read more
News round-up: School choice policy, selective sixth forms, and more
Is too much choice a bad thing? On March 7th at 12.30 pm, an online event will explore school choice policy, with ... Read more
Reclaiming Education Conferences in March
Comprehensive Future is a member of the Reclaiming Education Consortium. We are pleased to announce that the consortium is holding two Zoom ... Read more
News round-up: The school choice “illusion”, a call to review admissions, and more
New study shows school choice doesn't make parents happier A study by the Social Market Foundation suggests that a greater choice of ... Read more
When grammar schools expand it’s the secondary modern schools that suffer
A report by Fran Abrams in the Guardian revealed that the number of grammar school places has risen in the last five ... Read more
News round-up: The 11-plus is a flawed judge of potential, a new Education Secretary, and more
Professor Sharon Peacock's 11-plus story Renowned Covid scientist Sharon Peacock spoke to the BBC's Life Scientific about her troubled education. She failed ... Read more
Comprehensive Future’s AGM is on November 25th
Comprehensive Future's AGM will take place online via Zoom, on November 25th at 6pm, and we invite our supporters to join us. At the meeting ... Read more
‘What Would a Socially Just Education System Look Like?’ – Let’s continue the conversation
Our webinar ‘What Would a Socially Just Education System Look Like?’ was a lively event, panellists Ash Sarkar, Dr Alan Bainbridge and ... Read more
Research shows (yet again!) that grammar schools are NOT good for social mobility
A new paper for the IZA Institute of Labor Economics by Franz Buscha,Emma Gorman and Patrick Sturgis studies whether social mobility was ... Read more