10. 10. UKIP Wales Debate: Grammar Schools

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 5:27 pm on 21 September 2016.

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Photo of Rhianon Passmore Rhianon Passmore Labour 5:27, 21 September 2016

I’m sorry, I won’t. And further, that its record of admitting children from non-middle-class backgrounds was ‘pretty woeful’. We’ve heard those words already—pretty woeful. I know that the members of UKIP would like us to live in Michael Gove’s world and his parallel universe. That former Tory education Secretary declared earlier this year,

‘I think people in this country have had enough of experts.’

Well, let me tell this Chamber that the people of Wales who are passionate about the well-being of education for future generations still believe in experts, and, in particular, they believe in educational experts and they believe in headteachers. So, when the head of Ofsted in England tells a gathering of London councils’ education summit—