Grammar school criteria `must not further entrench gaps in educational opportunity'

Simon Doyle

NEW admissions criteria being drawn up by grammar schools must not further entrench gaps in educational opportunity, it has been urged.

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Grammar school criteria `must not further entrench gaps in educational opportunity'

Foyle College tells parents that applicants should have 'underlying academic ability'

Principals furious with Peter Weir claim that cancelling 11-plus 'limits opportunities'

Analysis: Cancelling transfer tests has not ended anxiety

AQE cancels February 27 transfer test

MORE Education news

Peter Weir challenged on staffing levels amid absences at special schools

Up to health chiefs to call for scrapping of school transfer test – Peter Weir

Lowering degree entry requirements 'could see students struggle'

Future Leaders: Fully funded training at SERC

`Clarity' promised by AQE over transfer test as it brands Derry bishop's comments 'defamatory'

Union says teachers will not provide in-school supervision and remote learning at same time

Grammar schools sharing admissions 'plan B'

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