11 Plus News for England
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Many news articles appear in the press relating to selective entry to schools at 11 plus and education in general.
These articles have been selected as being relevant to parents of children aged 9 to 13 who are interested in what is happening across England.
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Skegness Grammar School to host open day
Skegness Standard - 12 Sep 2012
Head teacher David Ward was keen to open the invitation to parents with children who may not originally taken the 11 Plus exam, but believe they would benefit ...
Dartford boy, 11, left without a secondary school
This is Local London - 10 Sep 2012
Robbie Cheeseman failed his 11 plus by just seven points in maths, meaning he did not get a place at his chosen schools Leigh Technology College, ...
State versus independent: Admissions game
Financial Times - 7 Sep 2012
In Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire and Kent independent prep schools do a roaring business with parents aiming for the 11-plus. Prep schools such as ..
New private school near Lincoln waiting on green light from planners
This is Lincolnshire - 2 Sep 2012
Specialist coaching will be offered for the 11-plus examinations, which are necessary for applications to the county's grammar schools. There will also be a focus ...
Superkids aged 10 and 13 have 8 A* GCSEs and an A level ...
This is Plymouth - 28 Aug 2012
Claudia completed the 11-plus entry exam in January, a year early, and is now preparing to start at Devonport High School for Girls in September, and teachers ...
School is under investigation in 11-plus appeals 'shambles'
This is Kent - 21 Jun 2012
AN EXCLUSIVE grammar school attended by pupils from Sevenoaks is under investigation for the fifth time in as many years.The Skinners' School has been ...
Could the 11-plus return to Croydon?
This is Croydon - 21 Jun 2012
CONTROVERSIAL plans to bring grammar education back to Croydon after more than two decades are afoot. While the move is seen as a progressive step by ...
Volunteers pit their wits against the controversial Kent 11-plus
This is Kent - 12 Jun 2012
AS DEMAND for places continues to soar for already over-stretched grammar schools across West Kent, pressure is increasing for pupils taking the controversial ...
Test failures win grammar school places in 11-plus farce
This is Kent - 7 Jun 2012
CHILDREN from Sevenoaks who passed their 11-plus are being pushed out of grammar school places by pupils who failed, the Chronicle can reveal.Parents ...
Parents triumph in the battle to expand grammar school places
Telegraph.co.uk - 31 Mar 2012
A group of unhappy but well-organised parents in Sevenoaks began an e-petition last autumn in frustration that their children, despite passing the 11-plus ...
Has this mother of three changed the face of British education?
Daily Mail - 31 Mar 2012
In Year Six, the final year of primary school education, all pupils in Kent have the option of sitting the 11-plus examination. Those who pass the exam can ...
New battles loom over grammar schools
BBC News - 31 Mar 2012
Opponents say grammars are socially divisive - sifting children in to "sheep and goats" at 11 through the 11-plus exam, which they have to pass to get a ...
Council may back grammar school bid
Burton Mail - 30 Mar 2012
... from September 2015 the Tory-controlled authority create two forms for girls and two for boys who pass the 11-plus, catering for about 120 children.
Grammar school: Kent County Council backs expansion plan
BBC News - 30 Mar 2012
Children have to pass the 11-plus exam to get in. ... Opponents say they divide children in to "sheep and goats" at 11 through the 11-plus exam, ...
Kent to get new school for 11-plus students
Kent Online - 23 Mar 2012
... editor Paul Francis Kent County Council has today agreed to the demands of more than 2600 parents to create more places for pupils who pass the 11-plus.
11 plus grammar school exams: Review may assess 'coaching'
Bucks Free Press - 26 Feb 2012
Dr Peter Holding from Sir William Borlase's Grammar School in Marlow said there is widespread awareness of the amount of coaching for the 11 plus that goes ...
Middle-classes target academies in school admissions race
Telegraph.co.uk - 25 Feb 2012
Yesterday, the county with the largest number of grammars – Kent – reported a rise in the number of children sitting the 11-plus entrance exam this year, ...
11 Plus change confirmed
Kent Online - 17 Feb 2012
It has been confirmed that pupils will take the 11-Plus in their own primary schools in September after a catalogue of errors during last ...
Medway Council makes 11-plus changes after complaints
BBC News - 16 Feb 2012
Pupils in Medway will be able to take the 11-plus examination at their own school rather than at test centres, following complaints in 2011.
11-plus exam may be held two months early
Echo - 28 Jan 2012
THE 11-plus exams could be brought forward two months so parents can pick their favourite schools after children have sat the tests.
Competitive parents 'taking joy out of childhood'
Telegraph.co.uk - 28 Jan 2012
Tutoring is increasingly popular in preparation for the 11-plus and Common Entrance – the traditional entry exams for grammar schools and private senior ...
Grammar schools' admissions policy under review
Chelmsford Weekly News - 19 Jan 2012
KEGS also plans to open up to ten per cent of places to Year 7 students who, in addition to scoring highly on the 11-plus test, demonstrate they have ...
Finding a tutor: it's a cut-throat world
Telegraph.co.uk - 19 Jan 2012
January is peak season for private tutors, with children facing a barrage of exams and revision: retakes, 11-plus, common entrance exams and GSCE and ...
Backing grammar schools: Labour need to be educated on what is ...
Daily Mail - 18 Jan 2012
I didn't go to a grammar school - I failed my 11 plus – but I wish I had done. To me, a system where a child is taught on their ability makes perfect sense ...
Poor children's GCSE grades 'unacceptable'
Kent Online - 18 Jan 2012
... schools to achieve in 2012, saying 40% of pupils should get five or more good GCSEs. By 2015, it says that should rise to 50%. Pupils taking the 11 - plus
Labour seeks Lib Dem support to fight grammar school plans
The Guardian - 16 Jan 2012
Before the election, Cameron said there would be "no return to the 11-plus". In government, the coalition has made it easier for grammars to expand.
A Canterbury grammar school criticised for 11-plus score increase
BBC News - 12 Jan 2012
A grammar school in Canterbury has been criticised for proposing to raise the pass mark of the 11-plus exam. Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys is ...
Chelmsford grammar schools consider catchment change
BBC News - 23 Dec 2011
The schools currently take children based on their 11-plus rankings. In a letter to parents, Kegs said about 40% of its current intake lived further afield ...
11-plus crackdown on rich kids' coaching 'advantage'
Aylesbury Today - 17 Dec 2011
CHANGES to the 11-plus system could soon be made in a bid to prevent wealthier families from giving their children at unfair advantage. ...
THE TORIES SIMPLY GOT IT ALL WRONG ON GRAMMAR SCHOOLS?
Express.co.uk - 11 Jan 2012
The 11-plus, with its “pass” or “fail”, was unnecessarily harsh and the secondary modern schools to which failed 11-plus candidates were consigned were ...
The creeping return of the grammar school?
The Guardian - 10 Jan 2012
There is also a shift away from arguing for the 11 plus – increasingly hard to justify in a more sensitive, child-aware culture – towards the introduction ...
Grammar schools get go-ahead to expand
Telegraph.co.uk - 12 Dec 2011
In recent years, the number of pupils sitting the 11-plus entrance exam in areas such as Kent, Birmingham, Buckinghamshire and Lincolnshire, which have the ...
Half of children who pass 11-plus exam are turned away from ...
Daily Mail - 27 Nov 2011
New figures show that of the 29500 children who took the 11-plus, 13800 passed, but 6100 of those youngsters were not offered places. ...
15000 pupils pass the 11-plus but fail to get a grammar school place
Telegraph.co.uk - 27 Nov 2011
Wallington High School for Girls, in Sutton, received 1400 applications for 180 places and had to turn away more than 300 pupils who passed the 11 plus. ...
ESSEX children taking the 11-plus exam should not be intensively tutored ...
This is Total Essex - Mar 27, 2011
The 11-plus English and maths papers are written by Essex grammar school staff and checked by colleagues. The verbal reasoning paper is set by an outside company. "We believe the papers should be rigorous enough to select the children who can manage ...
Want to get your little poppet into a decent school? Prepare for war
Daily Mail - Feb 17, 2011
The great 11-plus showdown is entering its denouement. From today, letters go out from grammar and private schools to say whose progeny has won the race for the most prestigious places. There's no doubt that in the multiple choice of life, ...
A COUPLE who adopted a Russian orphan were told she had brain damage.
This is Total Essex - 13 Mar 2011
But she has defied their expectations, passed 11-plus exams and secured a ... When she took 11-plus exams this year, she passed with flying colours and was ...
More pupils than ever get their first-choice secondary schools
Kent News - 5 Mar 2011
There are a number of boys living in Pembury and parts of Sevenoaks who have passed their 11-plus but have not been offered a grammar place this year. ...
Top comprehensives surrounded by 'privileged little circles'
Telegraph.co.uk - Feb 4, 2011
The study suggested that grammars – which select pupils on the basis of the 11-plus entrance exam – were more transparent as they identified pupils “with talent, irrespective of their backgrounds”. Mr Onac is former head of Fortismere School, ...
The 11-plus has taken over my life
Telegraph.co.uk - Jan 17, 2011
For it is at this time of year that, in our county – Buckinghamshire – the 11-plus appeals are heard. In this one meeting, a panel of well-chosen people ...
Pushy parents putting 11-plus tuition on infants' curriculum
Yourcanterbury.co.uk - Jan 15, 2011
Parents of children as young as five are trying to hire private tutors for 11-plus coaching as the demand for grammar school places rockets. ...
Pupils 'will be able to leave school at 14 to learn trade'
Coventry Telegraph - Jan 10, 2011
They claim it could be a return to separation of children at too young an age – abolished with 11-plus exams in the 1960s – and could deprive less ...
Parents demand 11-plus coaching for two-year-olds
This is London - Jan 5, 2011
One London firm said the number seeking tuition for the 11-plus has almost doubled in the past year as pressure on places increases. ...
More children tutored to get into grammar schools
Telegraph.co.uk - Jan 5, 2011
Children as young as four are being tutored to pass the 11-plus examination amid rising competition to get into grammar schools. Young children are being ...
Now that's pressure: Children of FOUR being tutored for 11-plus examinations
Daily Mail - Jan 5, 2011
Deidre Donegan, of Gabitas Educational Consultants, said that many parents began tutoring their children two years before the 11-plus exams due to rising ...
Parents vent their anger over 11-Plus test 'scam'
Daily Mail - Martin Delgado - Jan 1, 2011
The alleged scam came to light when a large number of 11-Plus candidates asked to take the exam on a Sunday, one day after the majority of pupils. ...
Grammar schools are the only hope for our failing education system
Telegraph.co.uk - Nov 10, 2010
And they say the 11-Plus was unfair! Watch my lips: no more selection by academic ability. But plenty of selection by house price or overnight conversion to ...
Don't be scared to give kids a push..
Mirror.co.uk - Nov 8, 2010
... take me down to the local bookshop to buy the latest exercise books, which tested verbal reasoning, maths and logic in preparation for the 11-plus exam
Grammar schools: Old school wisdom
Telegraph.co.uk - Nov 5, 2010
Competition is so great that parents either pay for their children to be coached for the 11-plus, or send them to fee-paying prep schools. ...
Grammar schools will be allowed to expand
Telegraph.co.uk - Oct 31, 2010
In a ruling last week, the schools adjudicator backed three "super-selective" grammars which admit only those children with the very highest 11 Plus scores,
Race for school places: Trafford
Manchester Evening News - Oct 26, 2010
The way I see it is that usually your first choice is going to be a grammar school but what if you don't pass their entrance exam or the 11 plus - you ..
Battle continues to end super selection policy
Kent News - Oct 23, 2010
The Judd School in Tonbridge, The Skinners School in Tunbridge Wells and Tonbridge Grammar School select children getting the highest marks in the 11 plus ..
11-plus pupils face grammar schools blow
thisiskent.co.uk - Oct 22, 2010
HARD-WORKING pupils who received their 11-plus exam results this week are set for disappointment. ..
School places system to stay
thisiskent.co.uk - Oct 22, 2010
At present, the schools all accept pupils who achieve the highest scores in the 11-plus, regardless of whether they live in the county or not. ...
11 plus Results Go Out To Tunbridge Wells' Children. But What Next?
Tunbridge Wells People - Oct 20, 2010
By AGidney | Wednesday, October 20, 2010, 11:21 With the 11 plus results out yesterday and Monday if you were registered on line to receive them, ..
Kent grammar schools appeal fails
BBC News - Oct 19, 2010
The schools adjudicator Dr Bryan Slater ruled they could keep their admissions criteria - based on 11 plus results rather than where children live. ...
Campaigners lose bid to end 'super selection'
Kent News - Oct 19, 2010
Kent County Council and parents complained that the schools' policy of selecting children based solely on their 11 plus results meant that grammar places ...
School applications from outside Kent rise
Kent Online - Oct 19, 2010
Kent County Council said that of the 5295 children who passed the 11-plus this year, 1156 do not live in the county - compared to 993 the previous year. ...
Making grammar schools less elitist
thisiskent.co.uk - Oct 8, 2010
As primary school children nervously prepare to receive their 11-plus exam results, which will determine their eligibility to enter selective education, ...
Pupils report back on their first month in a new school
The Guardian - Oct 4, 2010
After passing the gruelling 11-plus exam, Gabriel and Tayla are at Dane Court, a mixed grammar school with more than 1500 pupils, in Broadstairs. ...
Anger as children's exam papers are collected too soon
Kent Online - Oct 1, 2010
Youngsters taking the test, formerly known as the 11-plus, were told they had five minutes left to complete their maths paper even though there were still ...
Prep schools know how to inspire boys
Telegraph.co.uk - Sep 29, 2010
Many of the brighter boys, my older brother included, won 11-plus places at the nearby grammar. A few years after I left, the headmaster retired and a ..
Pupils 'want consulted on exams'
BBC News - Sep 27, 2010
In 2009, two sets of unregulated tests filled the vacuum left by the ending of the 11-plus transfer tests. In the aftermath, almost 1000 primary seven ..
School selection in the spotlight
thisiskent.co.uk - Sep 24, 2010
At present, the schools operate a merit-based selection system, in which children with the highest scores in the 11-plus are offered a grammar school place, ...
Teaching unions attack pressures of the Kent Test
Kent News - Aug 28, 2010
Previously known as the 11-plus, the exam selects what type of secondary education children go into. But the system, which has been scrapped in most other ...
Summer cramming for Kent 11 plus criticised by NUT
BBC News - Aug 16, 2010
Last-minute coaching for children to get them through the 11 plus in Kent is being criticised by a teaching union. Thousands of children across the county ...
Exam success for Coventry 11 year-olds
Coventry Telegraph - Aug 5, 2010
Figures released by Coventry City Council Key reveal key stage 2 pupils across the city have improved in their 11 plus exam results this year and made ...
Futures College boss: Talents are overshadowed by class
Essex Echo - 6 July 2010
Mr Baker said Westcliff High is working with Southend primary schools to try to encourage more disadvantaged children to take the 11-plus by letting them ...
Heads defend entry policies
thisiskent.co.uk - 2 July 2010
She added her school offered the vast majority of its Year Seven places to grammar-assessed students living within the 11-plus area of Kent, ...
When failure is not an option
Telegraph.co.uk - 2 July 2010
Given the amount of effort required to lick your child into shape for the ferociously competitive entrance exams, usually at 11-plus, action, and plenty of ...
Schools interested in academy status named
Teachers TV - 25 Jun 2010
Of the 1500 schools on the list, 92 are grammar schools, which select on the basis of academic ability demonstrated in the 11-plus exam. ...
Coalition pledge on 'slimmed down' national curriculum
Telegraph.co.uk - May 25, 2010
... become academies – retaining their right to select by ability – although the new government insisted there would be no further expansion of the 11-plus. ...
Grammar schools boom under Labour despite party's opposition
Daily Mail - May 14, 2010
And they will pile pressure on David Cameron who ruled out a return to the 11-plus in 2007, declaring that he was determined to 'move on from a sterile ...
Election candidates answer the big questions
Manchester Evening News - May 4, 2010
On education I would encourage the creation of new grammar schools but make the 11-plus vocational as well as academic. "The issue of whether you have ...
Conservative Wycombe candidate Steve Baker apologises over leaflet claim
Bucks Free Press - May 3, 2010
Candidate Andrew Lomas has said he wants the system scrapped but the party's manifesto while ruling out a 'return to the 11-plus' does not pledge to close ...
General Election 2010: Eton head calls for assisted places revival
Telegraph.co.uk - Julie Henry - May 2, 2010
... he abandoned the Conservative Party's traditional support for more grammar schools and the Tories have tried to avoid any mention of the 11-plus since. ...
Our Gothic towers inspire state school pupils, says Eton head
This is London - Apr 30, 2010
Many pupils at state comprehensives in the area have a low opinion of their own abilities after failing the 11-plus entrance exam for local grammar schools. ...
Schools and housing spark election debate
thisiskent.co.uk - Apr 30, 2010
But Labour candidate Gareth Siddorn, who is not in favour of the 11 plus system, said the question over the rights and wrongs of the selection process was a ...
Labour's Daniel Griffiths Responds to Ten Questions Posed by Tonbridge People ...
Tonbridge People - Apr 24, 2010
CAN YOU GUARANTEE A GRAMMAR SCHOOL PLACE FOR EVERY CHILD WHO PASSES THE 11 PLUS? First, the day-to-day running of the local education system is matter for ...
UKIP's Victor Webb answers your questions
Tunbridge Wells People - Apr 22, 2010
VW: UKIP will not return to a pass/fail 11 plus test but will introduce a comprehensive test to assess merit across a wide range of academic and non ...
General Election 2010: the Tories have a fortnight to save themselves from ...
Telegraph.co.uk - Apr 22, 2010
Bring back Grammar schools,and the 11 plus. As non of these will be implemented by Cameroon, my vote goes to the English Democrates. ...
Lib Dem Liz Simpson Responds to Ten Questions Posed By Tonbridge People - what ...
Tonbridge People - Apr 21, 2010
Can you guarantee a grammar school place close to home for every child who passes the 11 plus? I assume that this question relates to the difficulty some ...
What do Tonbridge People want to ask the candidates: Replies from Steve Dawe ...
Tonbridge People - Apr 14, 2010
Q Can you guarantee a grammar school place for every child who passes the 11 plus? 1. Grammar school places: No. The Green Party supports the full ...
Cameron wants a nation of volunteers. I'm not convinced
The Guardian (blog) - Apr 12, 2010
... electing county health boards; putting matron in charge on the ward; including non-academic skills in the 11-plus; cutting out red tape, especially EU ...
UKIP launches manifesto
ePolitix - Apr 13, 2010
New grammar schools would be built, but the "stigma of failure" attached to 11 plus tests would be removed by including non academic exams as well as ...
No narrowing of the great education divide
The Guardian - Apr 12, 2010
But read the report through and it is clear that schools which use the 11-plus test are still the worst offenders (after the private schools, which aren't ...
Top comprehensives 'more exclusive than grammar schools'
Telegraph.co.uk - Apr 12, 2010
The study suggested that grammars – which select pupils on the basis of the 11-plus entrance exam – were more transparent as they identified pupils “with ...
Ten Questions From Tonbridge People to our Election Candidates: Watch this ...
Tonbridge People - Apr 9, 2010
Can you guarantee a grammar school place close to home for every child who passes the 11 plus? 2. What will you do to improve our hospitals? 3. ...
Teachers fear 'selection at 14'
BBC News - Apr 4, 2010 "Those who failed the 11-plus scrambled for a place at technical schools to avoid being shipped off to secondary moderns. "Comprehensive schools offer a ...
Dagenham school pupils are top of the class
Barking and Dagenham Post - Mar 24, 2010
Irene Irpogho and Danielle Wilson won places at Brentwood School after acing their 11 plus exams and were then awarded their scholarships. ...
Wirral's grammar school leaders call for entry test results to be released ...
Liverpool Daily Post - Mar 23, 2010
If there is no risk in taking the 11-plus test, then you may widen the choice of those looking to reach the standard.” Mike Twist, deputy headteacher at ...
Why Live In Tunbridge Wells?
Tunbridge Wells People - Mar 21, 2010
Many people also choose Tunbridge Wells for the eleven plus and its selection of grammar schools. But how many of us are happy once we've made the ...
'Failing' grammar school is out of special measures
Manchester Evening News - Mar 17, 2010
Grammar schools traditionally score high marks as they select the brightest pupils, with 11-plus exams determining entry. Parent Charlie Rodger said he was ...
School crisis 'down to the government'
thisiskent.co.uk - Mar 17, 2010
This year's nightmare has seen 114 Kent pupils left without a grammar school place despite passing the 11-plus. The full extent of how many are from ...
Class war making parents feel guilty about private schooling, say heads
This is London - Mar 16, 2010
Many parents pay for prep schools to help train their children to pass the 11-plus exam and win places in state grammars. There were fears that government ...
School places farce hits twins
thisiskent.co.uk - Mar 7, 2010
Despite sailing through their 11-Plus exams, Isobel and Milly Money, 10, have not been given a grammar school place and have instead won places at the ...
'No evidence' of 11-plus cheating
Ilford Recorder 24 - Mar 6, 2010
COUNCIL chiefs have ruled there is no evidence of cheating in this year's controversial 11-plus exams as schoolchildren discover whether they got their ...
Academy head says 'don't just write us off'
thisiskent.co.uk - Mar 5, 2010
THE head of The Skinners' Kent Academy this week called on parents to "open their minds" after 114 youngsters who passed the 11-plus failed to get a place ...
School choice –an overrated concept
The Guardian - Mar 2, 2010
Grammars can select pupils based on 11-plus exams, faith schools can choose from the relevant religious backgrounds, and specialist schools can select 10% ...
Kent children and parents discover secondary school places
Kent Online - Mar 1, 2010
KCC said about 100 children who passed the 11-plus had not at this stage been offered a grammar school place. It follows concerns raised last year when some ...
Pupils in England told their secondary school places
BBC News - Feb 23, 2010
This is the first year when there is no official 11-plus entrance test, although some schools are implementing their own tests. In Wales parents give their ...
One in six pupils to lose out in school place chase
Daily Mail - Feb 26, 2010
Wallington County Grammar, in Sutton, Surrey, which attracted nearly 14 applications per place, said the 11-plus sessions had to be organised with 'military ...
Education: the high fly, the rest sink. And no one acts
Times Online - Feb 23, 2010
In Britain any debate on selection is cut off at the knees before it starts: “11 plus,” “a return to old-style grammars” and “writing off as failures” is ...
Grammar is important
Telegraph.co.uk - Feb 19, 2010
... and which are usually a mixture of standard 11-plus tests (verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, maths) and the school's own set papers. ...
Nick Seaton: Support grows for more grammar schools
Yorkshire Post - Feb 16, 2010
Two years ago, Kent had 1232 applicants from outside the county, who freely volunteered to take the 11-plus for a place in one or other of Kent's grammar ...
Police probe 11-plus exams 'cheating'
Ilford Recorder 24 - Feb 12, 2010
The 11-plus is a selective exam enabling pupils to get into the borough's two grammar schools, Ilford County High and Woodford County High. ...
Voters favour more grammar schools, says survey
BBC News - Feb 10, 2010
But these schools remain popular with parents, many of whom coach their children intensively to pass the 11-plus that determines whether or not they get a ...
Grammar schools 'should be expanded'
Telegraph.co.uk - Feb 9, 2010
In recent years, private tutors have also recorded a huge upsurge in demand for extra tuition to help get children through the 11-plus entrance exam. ...
Inequality in Britain isn't down to class but brains
Telegraph.co.uk - Alasdair Palmer - Jan 30, 2010
I'm one of those hard-up working class kids who passed the 11 plus lo these many years ago, and after many more years of bringing up a family, I returned to ...
Louth school defends proposal to scrap catchment area
Grimsby Telegraph - Jan 28, 2010
After hearing a number of parents object to the proposal, James Lascelles told Louth town councillors he wanted the top 120 scoring pupils ikn the 11-plus ...
Bruce Anderson: Education is no place for idealism or egalitarianism
Independent - Jan 25, 2010
Confronted by the life-chance dividing line of the 11-plus, millions of families underwent the same anxieties as my taxi-driver. In retrospect, the 1944 Act ...
The Northerner: Sky falls on chicken licker
The Guardian (blog) - Jan 21, 2010
Education there, this week at least, is concerned with tweaks to the 11-plus exam which for 90%-plus of the country is ancient history. ...
Poor schools fuelling boom in private tuition
Telegraph.co.uk - Jan 17, 2010
There is now so much difference between the best grammar schools and the worst comprehensives that parents are tutoring for the 11-plus from an earlier age. ...
Anxious parents fuel boom in tutors
Times Online - Jack Grimston - Jan 16, 2010
“There is now such a difference between the best grammar schools and the worst comprehensives that parents are tutoring for the 11-plus from an earlier age. ...
More schools reach GCSE target
BBC News - Jan 13, 2010
The highest scoring school was Invicta Grammar School in Maidstone, Kent. Its pupils averaged 764.5 points apiece, compared with the 214.9 at St Peter's.
Grammar schools, selection, and tips for those private school interviews...
Times Online (blog) - Jan 6, 2010
There's a huge deficit between the 11-plus test and what contemporary neuroscience is saying about the developing brain (which they couldn't understand). ...
Why British children are pushed too hard
Times Online - Jan 4, 2010
The need to stay “on target” for that 11-plus, even in Africa, was paramount. In return, the school said that it would keep Jessie's place open for her ...
11+ pupils could face 60-mile trip to take exam
Maidenhead Advertiser - Dec 19, 2009
Children in the Royal Borough wanting to take the 11-plus may have to travel 30 miles to Aylesbury from now on because of security fears sparked by the ...
County council: Paul Carter answers your questions
thisiskent.co.uk - Dec 18, 2009
On the Kent 11-plus test we set the pass rate that enables between 23 and 26 per cent of our young people to go to grammar schools. ...
Cameron and Clarke attacks Gordon Brown over 'politics of envy' as poll show ...
Daily Mail - Dec 6, 2009
But while Mr Clarke's fees were met by the State after he passed the 11-Plus, Mr Balls's were paid by his parents. Mr Brown brought up Zac Goldsmith, left, ...
Claim that Kent County Council allowed eleven-plus pass figure to rise ...
Kent Online - Dec 4, 2009
About 20 per cent of places are allocated on the basis of whether pupils had passed the 11-plus but that figure increases after headteacher assessment ...
Colchester: Pupils vie for grammar school places
Essex County Standard - Nov 30, 2009
Nearly 1000 youngsters have sat the 11-plus exam in a bid to secure a top grammar school education in Colchester. The Royal Grammar School, ...
Could grammar schools have a radical new role?
guardian.co.uk - Nov 16, 2009
"Some pupils are coached at seven years old to get through the 11-plus, and it stops them enjoying primary school," she says. "It's tragic. ...
Opening the school debate
Telegraph.co.uk - ?Nov 10, 2009
? If you reckon your child is brighter than average and could pass the 11-plus, or other relevant entrance exam, the latter option is clearly tempting. ...
Backlash over KCC grammar reshuffle plans
However, where we've got massive demand in west Kent and surplus places in east Kent, because there are less young people there passing the 11-plus, ...
Schools chief defends 11-plus from 'abuse' claims
She told KOS Media the 11-plus exam helps parents decide how their children should best be educated, rather than being part of a “system of rejection” – as ...
Conservative council threatens to reignite Tory row over grammar schools
Results published this month showed that 5113 children this year passed the Kent Test, the county's form of the 11-plus. However, the county's grammar ...
Anger at plan to expand grammar school system
The decision by the Conservative- controlled Kent County Council has reignited the controversy over selective education and the future of the 11-plus. ...
The teachers who can do no right
This 39-year-old office administrator intends to sue her daughter's Portsmouth primary school for failing to get Trish through the 11-plus. ...
We must expand Kent's grammar schools
The Kent Test, or '11-plus' as it used to be called, is "pretty close to the emotional abuse of children" he says. I do not know whether or not that ...
Record interest in grammars as parents save on school fees
Bexley's four grammar schools have seen a four per cent rise in demand this year, with 4686 children sitting the 11-plus exams. ...
Postal strike no problem for Kent Test pupils
More than 10000 emails were sent out on Monday to parents informing them if their child had passed the 11-plus, accounting for nearly 90 per cent of those ...
Canterbury High School head teacher Phil Karnavas attacks 11-plus system
Pupils who sit the 11-plus are placed under such pressure that the system verges on being cruel and could be described as ...
Early starts for the children desperate to pass their 11-plus
There is one aim: that next month the girl will score a mark on her 11-plus exam high enough to win her a coveted place at one of Essex's grammar schools. ...
Grammar school applications soar
More children have been entered for the 11-plus – the grammar school entrance exam – this year compared with 2008. ...
Recession-hit parents in clamour for scarce grammar school places
The National Grammar Schools Association has revealed a rise in the number of youngsters taking the 11-plus this autumn. In Kent, which has 32 grammar ...
Parents pay for top prep schools to secure places in best grammars
Applications to take the 11-plus have increased in 70 per cent of grammar schools, according to a separate survey conducted by The Times. ...
Schools should be given different targets for attainment
I heard tell last week of a teacher from a secondary modern who, on being introduced to a 10-year-old about to go through the 11-plus exam, was asked by the ...
Is the best school the right school?
New business aims to get children through 11+
Parents turn to lawyers in fight for best schools
Think tank: Education poisoned by class envy
Grammar schools 'to blame for Sats failures'!
The Telegraph - August 15, 2009
What we want to know is if the 11-plus selective system has an impact on the results in Slough, whether the 11-plus proves a distraction and whether it ...
Two cheers for Alan Milburn's report
New ruling increases pressure on grammar places
Grammars: working-class pupils' last hope
Times Educational Supplement Jul 17, 2009
Comprehensives have led to apartheid in education, where a child's chances are determined by a postcode lottery The past, wrote Gerard Kelly, editor of The TES, in an attack on grammar schools last week, is ...
