School admissions: nine children competing for top places
Activer le mode zenGraeme Paton and Hannah Furness
Many of Government's flagship academies and free schools reported turning away up to 1,000 children each following a surge in applications.
Nationally, an estimated one-in-six pupils - almost 100,000 - will be rejected from their first choice and around one-in-20 will fail to get into at least three schools named on application forms.
Admissions advisors said that the move was likely to result in a rise in the number of parents seeking legal help to lodge official appeals.
It is likely to be driven by increased use of lottery-style admissions systems that have been introduced by some schools - particularly academies and free schools - to stop middle-class families buying property nearby to secure places.
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"School admissions: nine children competing for top places", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), janvier 2012. Consulté le 08/09/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/school-admissions-nine-children-competing-for-top-places