The boss of the government’s go-to body for showing what works in education has urged new ministers to “focus on evidence not ideology” over potential plans for new grammar schools.
Professor Becky Francis, the chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), said the evidence was “pretty clear” that grammar school expansion was “unlikely to reduce education inequality” – and could widen it.
Liz Truss pledged during her prime ministerial election campaign to replace failing academies with new selective schools, lifting a ban in place since 1998.
