Students and parents are prepping for the 11-plus exam this month, which could secure a place at one of the 164 grammar schools in England and 69 in Northern Ireland.
Prime minister Theresa May said that she will announce a return to more selective schools in England as early as the Conservatives’ autumn conference.
The suggestion that May, a former grammar school pupil, will opt for new selective schools after an 18-year ban delighted many Conservative backbenchers. However, critics of grammar schools immediately rejected the idea that they encourage social mobility, with the shadow education secretary, Angela Rayner, accusing the prime minister of “harking back to a mythical ‘golden age’”.
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