The Week | 17th September 2016
MAY'S GRAMMAR LESSON: THE RETURN TO ACADEMIC SELECTION
Theresa May last week unveiled plans to allow any secondary school in England to become a grammar school, as part of the biggest shake-up
of the education system in decades. The Prime Minister’s proposals would end the ban on new grammars imposed by Tony Blair in 1998, enabling new selective schools to open and current comprehensives to introduce selection. England’s 164 existing grammars would also be able to expand. Selective schools could be required to meet quotas for poorer pupils, and to accept entry at fourteen and sixteen, as well as at eleven, to allow for late developers. May insisted that her vision was not a return to the past, but an effort to make the country a “true meritocracy”. Her proposals came under attack, however, from both Labour and Tory critics.
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Articles in this issue
Below is a selection of articles in The Week 17th September 2016.