Letters: Andrew Seber saysthe sense of local schools belonging to communities has been diminished, and Graham Mort isdismayed that the government is lifting the cap on faith school selection
January 2024
The Guardian view on school reform: southern discomfort about the class divide
Some comprehensive schools ‘more socially selective than grammars’
December 2023
Sir Peter Newsam obituary
Pioneering educationist who expanded comprehensive schooling in London and went on to chair the Commission for Racial Equality
August 2023
English regions dominated by grammar schools do not improve grades, study says
Pupils in grammar school areas experience little boost in results, while grades among brightest may actually be lower
July 2023
Don’t blame the 1944 Education Act for grammar schools and secondary moderns
Letter: James Chuter Ede who piloted the act through the Commons made no mention of selection or the 11-plus, writes Stephen Hart
We’re behind Andy Burnham’s technical education revolution
Letters: For too long, academic and class snobbery has hampered innovation in education, writes Paul Haworth, while Albert Calland recalls the advantages of training at Leigh technical college in the 1960s
Brief letters
Flowing underground: the river that returns
Brief letters: The River Skirfare | Dissolving bodies | Super school | Wrong song
June 2023
Brief letters
Paying a heavy price for grammar school
Brief letters: Private v state education | In praise of aprons | Exit music | Tipple bypass
March 2023
The superiority complex of grammar schools is misplaced
The Tories keep bottling their push for more grammar schools. Is it because they know they don’t work?
Lola Okolosie
February 2023
Poorer pupils still missing out on grammar school places in England
Research reveals children struggling across many parts of country despite changes aimed at helping them get in
December 2022
Observer letters
Private schools offer unjustifiable benefit
There is no place for state acquiescence in paid-for education
October 2022
Brief letters
Liz Truss talks sense about thinktanks
Brief letters: Vested interest groups | Gordon Brown’s school | Politicians’ clothing choices | Truss’s lack of mandate | Growing the pie
September 2022
Social mobility tsar casts doubt over grammar school revival in England
‘They don’t work’: experts criticise Liz Truss’s grammar schools plan
Today’s grammar schools are for a bourgeois elite
The Guardian view on schools: grammars are not the answer
August 2022
Truss and Sunak’ ideas on education are ‘sugar-rush’ policymaking, says expert
Tory leadership candidates want to bring back grammar schools among other campaign promises but critics are wary
July 2022
Brief letters
Great expectations of a Wagatha sequel
Brief letters: Vardy v Rooney | Grammar schools | Backing the birch | Truss v Neil | More flushing advice
