Times Education Supplement’s Eleanor Busby speaks to the Sutton Trust about our position on Grammar Schools.

The UK’s leading social mobility charity has responded to government plans for more grammar schools by calling for a national drive to improve education for “highly able” pupils in comprehensives.

In reports yesterday, which Downing Street has not denied, it emerged that Theresa May is planning to launch a new generation of grammar schools with a decision to scrap the ban on new selective schools expected to be announced as early as October.

Now the Sutton Trust social mobility has warned that bright children in comprehensives will miss out if the debate focuses on new grammar schools. It says a “proper strategy” is needed to support the less advantaged, bright students in non-selective schools.

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Conor Ryan, director of research and communications at the Sutton Trust, told TES: “The real issue is what happens in comprehensive schools. We would like to see support focused on them. There needs to be a real strong push to help the highly able in comprehensive schools.”

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