Grammar school heads have been warned off applying for academy status in the latest blow to the government's flagship education policy, it was revealed today.
The National Grammar Schools Association (NGSA) is advising extreme caution in view of the potential "covert dangers" of the policy, a week after Catholic schools were told by the church that it would be unwise for them to seek academy status.
The organisation's chairman, Robert McCartney QC, claimed the plans had not been thought through, and were an attempt by the Tories to appear non-elitist. If grammar schools – selective state schools of which there are around 164 in England – were to become academies, he said, parents might not be consulted about a subsequent decision to change admissions arrangements and let in pupils of all abilities.
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