PDF - Reclaiming Education – The Wrong Direction
The Reclaiming Education Alliance has produced 'The Wrong Direction' a publication listing many failings with our current education system. The school system reinforces ... 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
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
Our response to the Labour Party’s consultation on a National Education Service
Comprehensive Future has responded to the Labour Party's consultation on a National Education Service. We believe Labour should go beyond an opposition ... Read more
Government is using fund for essential school repairs to pay for grammar school expansion
Comprehensive Future has discovered that grammar schools are benefitting disproportionately from a Condition Improvement Fund - a budget designed to carry out ... Read more
Grammar school pupils ‘gain no social or emotional advantages’
A new study by researchers from the UCL Institute of Education (IOE) shows that Grammar school pupils do not gain any advantage ... Read more