Graham Brady, another wonderful supporter of the Conservatives in Northern Ireland, has helped create a splendid resource for selection campaigners over at the Friends of the Grammar Schools site.
I was invited to a launch reception of the organisation at the House of Lords about a year ago and it’s great to see the organisation develop.
The key facts page is especially punchy - in particular that much quoted statistic that Northern Ireland, the only devolved administration to have an all-selective based system, achieves the best results in GCSE (72% of pupils achieve an A* to C grade versus 62% nationally). Another interesting point, of the top 10 best performing local authorities in the UK, 7 have a selective based system of education.
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