A Spanish speaker learning English may say, “I have 20 years,” instead of “I am 20 years old.” This is a common mistake that ...
Research shows that in the past 50 years, social class mobility—how a person's occupation, social class or income compares with that of their parents—has either increased or stayed static in the UK.
Top of the Form, 1962: There are calls to open more grammar schools What's behind the undying fascination with grammar schools? Four decades after almost all of them disappeared in England, there are ...
UK government plans to expand the grammar school system have provoked controversy this week. Here are some of our readers’ responses As Theresa May’s government thrashes out its plans to extend ...
The role grammar schools should play in English education is still hotly contested, more so today than it has been in years. This is despite the fact that there are only 164 grammar schools operating ...
Life is not fair. Some people are richer than others, some smarter. What are you going to do? Bumble on, like Boris Johnson, about Platonic notions of a genetically determined "overclass"? Rail ...
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A SELECTIVE system of schooling is no way to make up ground on better performing countries, a leading educationalist has claimed. Sir Michael Wilshaw (below), the chief inspector of schools in England ...
As the government reiterates its pledge to provide £50m to expand existing grammar schools in England, Labour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner has criticised the plans as "absurd". She said ...