Thursday 22 September 2022 04:02 PM Education Secretary confirms he is drawing up plans to END the 25 year ban on ... trends now
Thursday 22 September 2022 04:02 PM Education Secretary confirms he is drawing up plans to END the 25 year ban on ... trends now
New Education Secretary Kit Malthouse confirms he is drawing up plans to END the 25 year ban on new grammar schools on the orders of Liz Truss to expand 'parental choice' of how their children are educated Malthouse said PM wanted to address parents' strong desire for more choice There are more than 150 grammar schools which select pupils by ability But the opening of new ones was outlawed in 1998 by Tony Blair
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Ministers are drawing up plans for the UK's first grammar schools in almost a quarter of a century, the new Education Secretary said today.
Kit Malthouse said that PM Liz Truss wanted her government to 'address the strong desire in quite a lot of parents' for more choice.
There are more than 150 grammar schools which select pupils by ability in the UK but the opening of new ones was outlawed in 1998 by Tony Blair.
The issue has become a cause célèbre for many Tory MPs but despite several attempts to reintroduce them in the past 12 years nothing has happened.
Speaking to the Yorkshire Post today, Mr
