Sentence examples for as a comprehensive school from inspiring English sources

Powell said memories of her time as a comprehensive school pupil in Manchester's Moss Side in the 1980s made her fear a repeat of that era.

The repeated trumpeting by Ed Miliband, its leader, of his days as a pupil at a comprehensive school to boost his ordinary-guy image suddenly seems rather hollow.Although the number of MPs from elite schools has declined over the decades, the proportion getting the best tutoring that money can buy is still greatly out of step with the general population.

As a classroom teacher at a comprehensive school in the north of England recalls: "I went for an interview at a school which had a fantastic website: it was updated almost hourly and was very impressive.

Milner said the subject was one close to her heart as she attended a comprehensive school and went back recently for a prize-giving at which she told current students that they could achieve what they wanted if they worked hard, only to feel afterwards that she may have inadvertently misled them.

After 22 years as a teacher and 4 years on the Education and Skills Select Committee I would like to put my ideas and experience into practice as the headteacher of a Comprehensive school.

As a student of a comprehensive school in Barnsley, and then a college in Rotherham, I never realised the gap in statistics between students achieving GCSE grades in the North of England, and the South.

Born in 1977 in the Birmingham suburb of Erdington, to parents who both worked as teachers, Oliver attended a comprehensive school in Bedford, then studied English – although not very attentively – at Christ's College, Cambridge.

I went to a comprehensive school in St Albans and, as any of my old teachers would tell you, I was impossible to teach from 13 onwards.

Greening went to a comprehensive school.

You were simply a comprehensive school pupil.

Bernard Barker was the first comprehensive pupil to become head of a comprehensive school.