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	<description>Making the case for selective education</description>
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		<title>&#8216;Grammar Schools are the key to increasing social mobility in the UK&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Souce: The Independent /05/2012 &#8211; Mary Ann Sieghart It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Lessons still to be learnt from Grammar Schools&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: The Independent &#8211; 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&#8217;s most pressing conundrums: how to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Grammar Schools Can Lead the Gove Revolution&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 08:44:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Graham Brady: Grammar Schools Can Lead the Gove Revolution

 

( This article originally appeared in the Yorkshire Post.)

 

MICHAEL Gove may prove to be the most radical and successful Education Secretary of modern times.

It isn’t that he is cleverer than those who went before (although he has a formidable intellect), it isn’t that the idea of giving schools more freedom through the Academy and Free Schools programmes is particularly original either: what gives hope about Gove is that he is clearly so passionate about what he is doing.

Speaking out last week against the “ideologues who are happy with failure – the enemies of promise”, he was actually angry with those who have been happy to tolerate and excuse failure in our state education for so long.]]></description>
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		<title>HOUSE OF COMMONS RECEPTION TO SUPPORT GRAMMAR SCHOOLS</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 14:40:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Altrincham and Sale West MP Graham Brady has held an event at the House of Commons to support Grammar Schools and selective education. Guests at the event included the Education Secretary Michael Gove, former Conservative Party leader Michael Howard, former leadership candidate David Davis and around one hundred MPs. They were joined by the heads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obituary of Bill Kennedy Headmaster who restored discipline at his school and whose great-uncle wrote the definitive Latin primer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[513 words Publication date: 12 January 2010 Source: The Daily Telegraph Page: 33 (c) 2010 Telegraph Group Limited, London BILL KENNEDY, who has died aged 97, was the former headmaster of Kirkham Grammar School in Lancashire and a member of a distinguished pedagogic family. His great-uncle was Benjamin Hall Kennedy, the great 19th-century headmaster of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When the results are this good, exams are failing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A-level achievement shows that able pupils and teachers are ready for even greater academic challenges. CHRIS WOODHEAD   1462 words Publication date: 15 November 2009 Source: The Sunday Times Page: 1  (c) 2009 Times Newspapers Limited. All rights reserved       Separated by the tiniest possible margin, six schools compete at the top of this year&#8217;s independent table for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new role for grammar schools?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:37:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Newsam, former chief schools adjudicator, has come up with a radical proposal for the future of post-16 education. Could it catch on? Jessica Shepherd   1684 words Publication date: 17 November 2009 Source: The Guardian Page: 1  © Copyright 2009.  The Guardian.  All rights reserved.                 Students at the non-selective sixth-form college in Farnborough, Hampshire, achieved an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grammars set for new transfer tests</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Simon Doyle, Education Correspondent   402 words Publication date: 10 November 2009 Source: The Irish News Page: Pg. 3 (c) 2009, The Irish News Ltd.  All Rights reserved.               Grammar schools are making final preparations for new entrance tests starting this week.  More than 7,000 primary seven pupils are expected to sit the first of three Common Entrance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money buys the best state education</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:27:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Alison Shepherd   719 words Publication date: 8 November 2009 Source: Independent On Sunday Page: 44,45 (c) 2009 Independent News &#38; Media PLC       Comment &#124; Every child deserves a good school place, says Alison Shepherd  An education system that produces record-breaking GCSE and A-level results year after year ought to instil pride both in children and parents. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How a good school can add 125% to value of your house</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah O&#8217;Grady Property Correspondent     551 words Publication date: 4 November 2009 Source: The Daily Express Page: 19 (c) 2009 Express Newspapers               HOUSE prices are soaring in areas whose schools enjoy a good reputation as parents pull out all the stops for their children&#8217;s education.  In what have become known as &#8220;educational super towns&#8221;, the average [...]]]></description>
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