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Poking the school choice myth with a stick
Posted by Nick Cowen in Education on 28/02/2007
The Telegraph reports today that over 200,000 pupils in the UK will miss out on their first choice of secondary school this year. Going by last year’s figures, the problem is concentrated particularly in inner-city areas. In 2006, 33% of Birmingham students failed to get their first choice place. In London, Wandsworth, Brent and Westminster faced similar figures of 36%, 28% and 32% respectively.
Meanwhile in Brighton, the Labour run local authority has made the arguably laudable attempt to clamp down on selection via house price by introducing a lottery for oversubscribed school places. The aim is to prevent further economic and social segregation that the limited number of places in good schools has managed to entrench up until now.
