Professor: An Interview with Dr Alan Bainbridge
Alan Bainbridge has spent his career in education, from teaching in secondary schools to becoming Professor of Education at Queen Margaret University, ... Read more
“Our Daughter Was Denied Her Future by a Cold and Unfair Academy Appeals Process”
Grieving Parent When we applied for our daughter’s secondary school place, we had no idea how broken and painful the school admissions ... Read more
A Toxic System That Divides Peers and Communities
By Anna Taylor I’ve been trying to convince my daughter’s peer group that grammar schools reinforce inequalities, but they don’t seem to ... Read more
Liz Truss is Wrong: Grammar Schools Should be Abolished, Not Expanded
By Jack Deasley, age 19, a student at Cambridge University Liz Truss should rethink her support for grammar schools Liz ... Read more
As a ‘Grammar School Girl,’ even I think selection should be abolished
By Jasneet Samrai Having had the opportunity to attend a grammar school, it’s easy to say that I’m being hypocritical; I’ve benefited ... Read more
Why I removed my son from a Grammar School and put him in a Secondary Modern
A parent from Kent shares her story about the pressure to choose a grammar school, and her discovery that her son could ... Read more
The 11-plus / IQ fallacy
Tricia, who failed the 11-plus in 1959 and found that it changed the course of her life. Life ... Read more
The 11-plus – the beginning
By Roy Boardman When, three years ago, I decided to write an autobiographical novel covering my years at Secondary School, 1948-1953, I ... Read more
Sliding doors
By Claire Crome I remember it as if it were yesterday. 4.30pm, the sun was shining and we were sitting by the ... Read more
How we overcame selection in Guernsey
Tim Langlois writes about the successful campaign to end the 11-plus in Guernsey. There will be no 11-plus test in Guernsey ... Read more