Friends of Grammar Schools

Souce: The Independent /05/2012 – Mary Ann Sieghart

It’s open season on private schools this month. Not from the left of the Labour Party, but from the most senior ministers in the Government. First it was Michael Gove lamenting the widening divide between the private and state sectors. Tomorrow it will be Nick Clegg.

They have a point. It’s no longer just politics and the professions that are disproportionately peopled by a public-school elite. These days, it’s also the media, music, acting and sport. Gove calls this “morally indefensible”. He claims that “more than almost any developed nation, ours is a country … Continue Reading

Source: The Independent – 22/05/2012

Last week, it was the Education Secretary, Michael Gove.

Yesterday, it was the Labour leader, Ed Miliband, and today it will be the Deputy Prime Minister and Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg. All, in their different ways, are seeking a solution to one of today’s most pressing conundrums: how to reverse this country’s shocking and stubborn decline in social mobility. Yet all, in their different ways, are also fighting shy of an obvious answer: taking another look at grammar schools and selection according to academic ability.

It is easy – especially for those who benefited from them – … Continue Reading