Sentence examples for of comprehensive schools from inspiring English sources

In education, the government wants to go farther than Mr Blair in challenging the dominance of comprehensive schools.

The major issue in those years was the spread of comprehensive schools, and consequent disappearance of grammar schools.

The "truth that dare not speak its name" might concern the national debt, the extent of Islamic militancy or the flaws of comprehensive schools.

As education secretary, she oversaw the growth of comprehensive schools under Labour and was known for her passionate opposition to grammar schools.

The comprehensive principle became dominant, and the number of comprehensive schools grew under both Labour and Conservative governments, so that most state-maintained secondary schools were comprehensive.

The infinite variety that the size of comprehensive schools was intended to make possible was even more dramatically demonstrated by the breadth of out-of-school activities.

That said, some evidence of comprehensive school performance does exist.

Since 1968 municipalities have offered courses for adults covering the three upper grades of comprehensive school and upper secondary school.

"Only 10% of comprehensive school pupils sit triple science GCSE... while 57% do so in grammar schools and 33% do at private schools," a spokesperson said.

While giving a robust defence of the principle of comprehensive schooling, the watchdog's chief inspector of schools also lambasted the "baleful legacies" of the past.

He is determined it will remain the sort of comprehensive school that the area ought to have possessed when he needed one.