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Tories showing their true colours again.
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that's exactly what this policy will do.
it's putting potential hurdles in the way of future students and their families of sending children to university due to financial reasons and not due to their ability.
I think the £9k fees are more relevant to that problem than this policy is....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Of course more grammar schools closed under Margaret Thatcher as Education Secretary (1970-1974) than anyone else.
Most of the direct grant grammar school turned into fee-paying independent schools which gives the lie somewhat to the social mobility claims. (as an anecdote Roger McGough the Liverpool poet, whose dad was a docker was sent to a fee paying prep school to get to the grammar school St Marys Crosby - it is of course now a fee paying school).
There is no real causal link between grammar schools and social mobility, the emphasis should be on improving the comprehensive system which seems at least Michael Gove's aim.US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 20050 -
Hello Kennyboy, is that really you? If so, welcome back!Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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vivatifosi wrote: »Hello Kennyboy, is that really you? If so, welcome back!
thank you - yes it is, although couldn't get my original user id back as don't use that email address anymore and couldn't remember my password
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Nice to see the familiar names (especially ones that that I thought had stopped posting well before me). Lurked a few times on the boards that have public access but need to ask a pension question so thought I'd better get a user id again.
Won't be posting too much (hopefully!) as it does tend to suck time up.US housing: it's not a bubble - Moneyweek Dec 12, 20050 -
Did it ever go away?shortchanged wrote: »Elitism cometh again.
Hypocrisy never did either. Check out the number of Labourites who send their children to top end fee paying schools."Never underestimate the mindless force of a government bureaucracyseeking to expand its power, dominion and budget"Jay Stanley, American Civil Liberties Union.0
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