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THE National Union of Teachers is threatening a High Court challenge against the government’s “back door” expansion of grammar schools, its leader said yesterday.
New academically selective schools have been banned since 1998 — but some academies are now opening “grammar streams” where kids are hived off via ability tests.
The NUT has written to Education Secretary Justine Greening arguing that a clause in the government’s recent education green paper encouraging academy chains to “establish a single centre in which to educate their ‘most able’ pupils” is unlawful.
With 170,000 children living in poverty in north-east England and teachers leaving in droves over 20 per cent real-terms pay cuts since 2010, all while private companies siphon off billions, it is time to unite and fight for education, writes MATT WRACK
NICOLA SARAH HAWKINS explains how an under-regulated introduction of AI into education is already exacerbating inequalities