We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest UK schools news every morning. Grammar schools should consider overhauling their admissions criteria to counter new findings that ...

IN trying to justify the acceptance of 109 non-A grade pupils out of a total of 136 first year admissions to Campbell College (Belfast Telegraph, July 6) the headmaster Jay Piggot inadvertently ...

The vast majority of grammar schools will not use academic criteria to admit pupils in 2021, the BBC understands. On Friday Banbridge Academy, which had used the Association for Quality Education (AQE ...

A GRAMMAR school is facing a legal challenge over admissions criteria that give priority to children in its fee-paying prep department. It has been claimed that Belfast Royal Academy (BRA) has ignored ...

AN all-girls grammar school has changed its admissions criteria following advice from lawyers. Victoria College Belfast will give higher priority to children entitled to free school meals. It follows ...

Have you ever wondered why so many reporters don’t know that “criterion” is singular and “criteria” is plural? How many times have you read something like this in a magazine: “The student who brings a ...

On Friday Banbridge Academy, which had used the Association for Quality Education (AQE) transfer test, published admissions criteria without using any academic criteria. The school, which has more ...

Previously, transfer tests were used to select pupils by the majority of NI grammar schools The vast majority of grammar schools will not use academic criteria to admit pupils in 2021, the BBC ...