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12 April 2026

Tag: grammar schools

Standalone trust could be stripped of school over ‘culture’ of sexism

An academy trust could be stripped of its only school after Ofsted found a “pervading culture” of sexist and other discrimination had created a “hostile environment”. Colchester Royal Grammar School is awaiting its fate after receiving a termination warning notice, following Ofsted’s “inadequate” judgement and warning some pupils felt “unsafe” in July. The inspectorate visited […]

GCSE results 2021: Top grades rise most at private and free schools

Private and free schools have seen the biggest jump in top grades in this year’s teacher-assessed GCSE results, figures show. Across England, the proportion of GCSE results overall at grade 7 and above—equivalent to a grade A under the previous system—rose to 28.7 per cent, up from 25.9 per cent last year and 20.7 per […]

DfE claims Brexit has stalled grammar schools inclusion monitoring

The government has claimed that Brexit hampered its monitoring of efforts to make grammar schools more inclusive, after admitting that the proportion of poorer pupils attending them rose by less than a percentage point in five years. To blame the pandemic for disrupting the work of widening access to grammar schools is poor Department for […]

Profile: Dr Robin Bevan, NEU president and grammar school head

Given newspaper headlines about militant union bosses plotting against ministers’ plans over the past year, it is perhaps surprising that the president of the generally anti-selection National Education Union is the headteacher of a boys’ grammar school. But Dr Robin Bevan, who has found himself having to help lead the country’s largest education union at […]

Gibb rejects call for 11-plus results to be linked to national pupil database

The schools minister has rejected calls to collect 11-plus data and link it to the national pupil database. His decision comes as new figures show that fewer poorer pupils passed the test in two of the country’s most selective areas. We do not intend to ask schools and local authorities to collect the data you […]

Report 11-plus results and link them to pupil data, say campaigners and academics

Academies have backed calls from campaigners for 11-plus entry test data to be shared with government and linked to pupil records so the fairness of the assessments can be evaluated. A letter from Comprehensive Future, backed by 24 well-known academics and educationalists, calls for the grammar school entry test data to be “subjected to the […]

£50m for expansion, but some grammars get less inclusive

The government’s £50 million grammar schools expansion scheme to improve access for poorer pupils has instead created “more places for the middle classes”. We should be directing precious government resource elsewhere to really improve excellence and equity in the education system Analysis of admissions data from 14 of the 16 schools that split the selective […]

Grammar school scraps controversial ‘exclusion clause’ from registration form

A grammar school has deleted a controversial clause in its registration form that made parents agree their child could be kicked out if the headteacher thinks it “desirable”. The Skinners’ School in Kent required the parents of prospective pupils to sign a registration form allowing governors to withdraw their child if they decided via “a […]