Tory leadership candidates push for more grammar schools
Liz Truss reportedly told the right-wing 1922 committee of Conservative MPs that she would end the ban on new grammar schools. Now ... Read more
Grammar school and secondary modern MATS a “failed experiment”
Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In? In the TV documentary, 'Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In?' grammar head Desmond Deehan, ... Read more
Weald of Kent ‘satellite’ grammar school rated ‘Requires Improvement’
The Kent grammar school that controversially expanded by building a second school building in a town ten miles away from the main ... Read more
Comprehensive Future Patron introduces Private Members Bill seeking to end academic selection
Baroness Blower Labour Peer Christine Blower will introduce the School (Reform of Pupil Selection) Bill in the House of Lords ... Read more
CF challenges the MPs trying to overturn the ban on new grammar schools to share their evidence
Jonathan Gullis MP A group of Conservative MPs have launched a campaign seeking to overturn the ban on creating new ... Read more
Nadhim Zahawi wants to ‘spread the DNA’ of grammar schools, but there is nothing to admire about schools that turn away disadvantaged pupils
Speaking at an event to mark the launch of the DfE's new Schools White Paper, Education secretary Nadhim Zahawi praised the “fantastic ... Read more
£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
Responding to research evidence in Parliament: A case study on selective education policy
A new paper published in the British Educational Research Association (BERA) Review of Education, highlights the limited use of evidence in parliamentary debates ... Read more
Do the public think grammar schools are good for social mobility?
YouGov recently polled the public on their attitudes to grammar schools, with support for selection apparently falling since they last asked this ... Read more