More recently, he has declared opposition to comprehensives and support for the return of grammar schools. |
Instead, many went to council-run comprehensives and attended newer universities or none. |
Researchers have also recently found that people in grammar schools do better than pupils in underfinanced inner-city hell-hole comprehensives. |
People power has forced councillors to rethink plans to change school catchment areas and bar scores of pupils from their local comprehensives. |
Oversubscribed comprehensives are turning away applications for children whose parents have not put the school down as their first choice. |
So it has been confirmed that almost 800 non-resident children are given places at Sutton's selective schools and comprehensives. |