Grammar schools should provide tutoring for poorer pupils taking their entrance exams to level the playing field with wealthier families, a leading education figure has suggested.
Sir Peter Lampl, founder of the Sutton Trust who is retiring as chair of the Education Endowment Foundation, said that education had fallen off the government’s radar.
He likened the Department for Education to a “bloody railway station — people just coming and going” with the churn of education secretaries in recent years.
Lampl’s call comes as analysis by The Times showed that some grammar schools take less than 2 per cent of pupils on free school meals — ten times lower than the national average.
