Comprehensive Future responds to the Green Paper
Asking the wrong questions, ignoring the right answers. Comprehensive Future’s response to the 2016 Green Paper ‘Schools that Work for Everyone’. “What ... Read more
PDF - DfE press office forced to withdraw misleading tweet comparing grammars and comprehensives
On the 10th November the DfE press office released a tweet comparing grammars and comprehensives. It was forced to withdraw it immediately ... Read more
Bad Grammar
It is hard not to see the government’s decision to re-open the debate about grammar schools as one more example of the ... Read more
Parents talk about selection and their children
18 October 2016 WHILE GRAMMAR HEADS CELEBRATE PARENTS REVEAL THE TRUE PRICE OF SELECTION This evening, a group of parents from selective ... Read more
News about selection
Comprehensive Future meeting What now for the comprehensive vision? November 23rd 6pm, Committee Room 6 House of Commons, Westminster. Speakers Vic Goddard ... Read more
The case against grammar schools
Just weeks after making a passionate One Nation-style address on the steps of Number 10, a speech that many felt had more ... Read more
One Nation? That didn’t last long says Melissa Benn
Melissa Benn, Chair of Comprehensive Future, annotates Theresa May’s supposedly ‘One Nation’ speech on the steps of Downing Street on July 13th ... Read more
From Kent and Bucks, more evidence of the need to end selection
In Kent, Bucks and in a speech by Michael Wilshaw the evidence continues to pile up about the need to end selection. ... Read more
Changes in admissions urgently needed
Recent research from Professor Anne West and Audrey Hind of the London School of Economics looked at secondary school admissions in London ... Read more
A strong call for Jeremy Corbyn to tackle Labour Party policy on admissions and selection.
In 2007 Comprehensive Future published Fair Enough, its first pamphlet on school admissions. It included contributions from Tory and Liberal Shadow Ministers ... Read more