Findings from recent Education Policy Institute analysis of the 11-plus examination were cited today in an exchange between the Secretary of State for Education and Shadow Minister for Schools.
Following the new analysis, which examines the role of private tutoring, barriers to entry to grammar schools for disadvantaged pupils, and the impact of employing quotas for FSM pupils, shadow schools minister Mike Kane contended in today’s House of Commons education questions that “the 11-plus test cannot be tutor-proofed”.
Asked by the shadow minister whether she agreed that “selection at 11 will favour families that can afford it”, Secretary of State Justine Greening defended government plans to expand selective schools, and stressed her commitment to providing “more good school places for children, particularly disadvantaged children”.
You can read today’s education questions in full here.
‘The 11-plus and access to grammar schools‘ can be read here.
See also:
‘Grammar schools and social mobility’: our first report on selective schools – the most detailed impartial study of the data and evidence on grammar schools for almost a decade.
‘Schools that work for everyone’: read the Education Policy Institute’s official response to the consultation.
‘Grammar schools and social mobility’ – Further analysis of policy options’: this second selective schools report examines what the effects would be of putting new grammar schools in different parts of the country, and the impact of introducing quotas for Free School Meal children in grammar schools.
