Comprehensive Future Annual Newsletter
December 2018 Our new chair After four highly successful years, Melissa Benn has stepped down as Chair of Comprehensive Future. We are ... Read more
Sixteen grammar schools win expansion funding, as the government pursues a policy that ignores all evidence
Sixteen grammar schools will receive a share of the £50 million Selective School Expansion fund, the government announced today. This controversial fund ... Read more
Comprehensive Future welcomes a new chair, Dr.Nuala Burgess
Dr.Nuala Burgess After four busy and successful years leading Comprehensive Future Melissa Benn has stepped down as chair and will ... Read more
Our two new reports
We have produced two new reports outlining policy proposals for ending 11-plus selection and creating fair school admissions. Melissa Benn, chair of ... Read more
How to phase out selection and ensure fair school admissions: Comprehensive Future publishes fresh policy proposals in time for the 2018 party conferences
Comprehensive Future are today publishing two key documents on how to reform school admissions and phase out selection that will form the ... Read more
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