comprehensives

* I used to teach in comprehensives, now I’m in the City mostly teaching professionals but still teach children

boss 2008

Eventually, this attempt to level the playing field was itself deemed intolerably elitist, and they were largely abandoned in favour of one-curriculum-fits-all comprehensives.

TV highlights 12/01/2012 2012

Professor David Woods, the chief adviser for London schools, said the "chattering classes" were wrong about the capital's comprehensives.

State schools: are they failing our children? 2011

Some 59% of those who had attended comprehensives said £9,000 fees would have put them off university, compared with 39% of those who were educated privately.

Rise in university applications slows amid fears about degree costs 2011

Katharine Birbalsingh has taught in London comprehensives for over 10 years and this diary of a typical year in one of those schools will confirm every parent's worst fears.

State schools: are they failing our children? 2011

Last week's Mail on Sunday named and shamed comprehensives as key factors in our national decline, while former teacher Katharine Birbalsingh popped up on Newsnight to raise the alarm, once again, on school discipline, an easy theme that Cameron has quickly made his own.

The crisis facing Britain's education system 2011

I would also LOVE to know how they classified people who were educated pre-comprehensives at free local grammar schools, where those schools are now academic independent schools like my old stomping ground?

Archive: Oct 08 - Mar 09 Cath@VWXYNot? 2009

St Ninian's High School, on Glasgow's southern approaches, has become one of Scotland's consistently top-performing comprehensives.

Who will awaken the talents of our poorest kids? | Kevin McKenna 2011

After Polish teenagers have finished at gimnazjum schools – similar to British comprehensives – at the age of 15, they take one of four paths.

For a generation of young Poles, travelling abroad is still often the only option 2011

It helps explain why only 15% of children in comprehensives get five GCSEs at grade C or above in academic subjects and why more than 50 comprehensives are more than half-empty, having been deserted by parents.

State schools: are they failing our children? 2011