The test survived the 1970s, as a Labour government pressed English and Welsh schools to go comprehensive.
Of the 3,612 applications from local education authorities or schools to abandon selection at 11 and go comprehensive, she turned down only 326.
Aside from a brief spell at an independent school in Bedford and another period in the Canadian state system, his was a state education, encompassing Maidstone grammar, Roundhay high school in Leeds, which had just gone comprehensive, and a comprehensive sixth form, Thornes House, in Wakefield.
And when Anthony Crosland, education minister under a Labour government, called on local authorities to submit plans to go comprehensive, the response was largely positive.
"Before year's end," Mr. Reid said, "we're going to get comprehensive health care reform".
Exactly one year ago I was working in Congress, trying to figure out how we were going to pass comprehensive immigration reform (CIR).
Limited resources and funding meant it was unlikely that professional biologists and conservationists were going to comprehensive, continuing surveys on the scale required, suggested Dr Boakes.
During her tenure of office, the percentage of secondary school pupils going to comprehensives rose from 32 per cent to 62 per cent.
Bennett himself went to comprehensive state schools in Glasgow before entering university at 16.
Kids who went to comprehensive schools in my day weren't supported at all.
A local doctor said in an interview that Mr. Wilson told him that 40percentt of those sales had gone to Comprehensive Care.
