The Selective School Expansion Fund has failed as a policy
The Selective School Expansion Fund launched in 2018, with the aim of expanding selective schools while boosting the number of disadvantaged pupils ... Read more
DfE publish guidance on the 11-plus this year
The Department for Education has asked grammar schools to move 11-plus exams to November. This will put pressure on the majority of ... Read more
Comprehensive Future calls on grammar schools to abandon the 11-plus this year
Comprehensive Future has written an open letter to education secretary Gavin Williamson, along with MPs and councillors in selective local authorities, calling ... Read more
Grammar schools admit fewer children from poorer families despite a push to widen intakes
Comprehensive Future's Freedom of Information request has revealed that the proportion of disadvantaged pupils accessing grammar schools has fallen from 8.48% in ... Read more
Does profit matter more than parents understanding of school admissions? Tribunal set to decide whether an 11-plus company’s commercial rights matter more than public transparency
CF Chair, Dr Nuala Burgess, and James Coombs On March 4th Comprehensive Steering Committee member James Coombs took his six-year ... Read more
James Coombs fights 11-plus secrecy in tribunal case challenging CEM test provider
James Coombs, of Comprehensive Future’s steering committee, is challenging 11-plus test company, CEM, to release the anonymised raw scores of test-takers. He ... Read more
Six grammar schools receive cash to expand, and it’s time to scrap the discredited Selective School Expansion Fund
Twenty five grammar schools submitted bids for the £50 million Selective School Expansion Fund in 2019, with the Department for Education announcing ... Read more
Kent Catholic primary schools to continue to offer 11-plus tests, as Kent County Council highlights the problems of Kent’s poor university rates
The Archdiocese of Southwark Education Commission is responsible for Catholic schools in the selective authorities of Kent, Medway, Bromley, and Bexley. The ... Read more
Social Mobility and Higher Education: New report shows grammar schools are not the answer
In a new collection of essays published by the Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) entitled 'Social Mobility and Higher Education: Are grammar ... Read more
Second ‘satellite’ grammar school given go-ahead by Kent County Council
Hot on the heels of the 2017 opening of the Weald of Kent Grammar School for Girls’ Sevenoaks ‘satellite’, Tunbridge Wells Boys' ... Read more