King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, in Birmingham, has a quota of 25% of places for pupils from the poorest families A quarter of England's state grammar schools still let in hardly any poorer ...

Noam Chomsky already believed in the second half of the 20 th century that humans are born with a predisposition to understand and learn language. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical ...

BBC News answers some of the key questions about grammar schools and poses some 11-plus questions for readers to tackle. Grammar schools are state secondary schools that select their pupils by means ...

It’s incredible how little we talk about grammar these days. The days of learning about the use of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs seem over. No mention of the lovely proposition either ...

Grammar has been getting attention in the media lately, and for good reason. Because I am over 50 and I was raised by grammar sticklers, I am sympathetic to managers’ complaints about rampant grammar ...

Proponents of selective education have put forward their case many times over the years – and it remains as weak as ever Before the 2015 election I wrote an article speculating on the possible impact ...

Grammar is the system for organising a language. All major languages have a grammatical structure. Grammar allows us to structure our sentences and even our thoughts and ideas. Some experts think that ...

The decision to approve a so-called “satellite” grammar school in Sevenoaks is bad news (Kent grammar decision is ‘a bad day for education’, says head of nearby school, 15 October). Evidence shows ...

A quarter of England's state grammar schools still let in hardly any poorer children, despite most trying to improve their admissions policies, according to BBC analysis. Out of 160 grammar schools, ...