Evening Standard - London, August 9th, 1999
THE Government is getting itself in a bad mess over selection in schools. On the one hand it is encouraging specialist schools, a forward-looking policy popular with parents that could help break up the monolithic cast of comprehensives, and which inevitably involves a degree of selection, whatever weasly words are used to refute the charge. On the other, it has set in motion the balloting procedure that risks closing down some of the few remaining grammars. Now, to compound the confusion, the admissions adjudicator appointed by the Government has ruled that Wandsworth Council must scale back ...
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