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The grammar schools debate [1] is a debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the existence of grammar schools in the United Kingdom.Grammar schools are state schools which select their pupils on the basis of academic ability, with pupils sitting an exam (called the 11-plus) in the last year of primary school to determine whether or not they gain a place.
The tripartite system was, in effect, a two-tier system with grammar schools for the academically gifted and secondary modern schools for the others. [7] [6] Grammar schools received the lion's share of the money, reinforcing their image as the best part of the system, and places in grammar schools were highly sought after.
Liam Fox shares the school accommodation "Squabbling House" with Johnson and Davis. David Cameron is the former Headmaster. Michael Gove is a former teacher at the school, who was recently fired. Following the results of the School Debate, he was rehired. George Osborne is the former school bursar who has gone back to live with his parents.
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Henrietta Barnett School is a grammar school for girls with academy status.. A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented selective secondary school.
It represents the 164 grammar schools in England and the 69 in Northern Ireland that are in existence. Two thirds of English LEAs do not have grammar schools. It produces the publication called NGSA News. It seeks to prevent the few Labour-controlled LEAs that have grammar schools from taking them into the comprehensive system.
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