Government to unveil plan to end ban on new grammar schools
Socially divisive but often economically important to the viability of small rural towns it looks like grammar schools are back on the agenda. I think the PM is a fan…
Theresa May’s government will publish plans that could, within weeks, end the ban on building new grammar schools after a proposed policy change was inadvertently leaked.
A short note, written by Department for Education (DfE) permanent secretary Jonathan Slater, was captured by a photographer as a civil servant walked along Downing Street.
The note referred to a consultation document that states the government “will open new grammars, albeit that they would have to follow various conditions”.
Details of the radical expansion policy are set to be published before the Conservative conference in early October. They are likely to trigger an ideological battle in parliament, where selective education has become a divisive and symbolic issue, with passionate proponents and opponents.