All 9 results for grammar speaker:Jonathan Gullis

School and College Funding: The Midlands — [Mark Pritchard in the Chair] ( 9 May 2023)

Jonathan Gullis: ...I would be embarrassed: it would mean that those who need it most would not get the level of help that they truly deserve. My mother was on a council estate in London, and she got off it thanks to grammar school—something that the hon. Member for Coventry South herself will know well about, having been such a beneficiary of that world-class education, which I hope to bring to...

Open Season for Woodcock — [Dame Caroline Dinenage in the Chair] (27 Feb 2023)

Jonathan Gullis: I am very grateful to my hon. Friend for correcting my spelling, punctuation and grammar—it is always good, as a teacher, to be clued up on these things, and I have shown that I need to go back to school quite urgently. I also want to put across the point made to me: actually, we would have expected a much sharper decline in the use of lead shot. Although the RSPB will accept that, to a...

Fair Taxation of Schools and Education Standards Committee (11 Jan 2023)

Jonathan Gullis: ...most disadvantaged pupils in our communities, I need to make sure that she understands people like me. I went to an independent school because my mother got off the council estate in London through grammar school after her father, a postman who died when she was 17 years old, and her mother, a local teaching assistant, put all the money they could into giving her the very best start in...

Written Answers — Department for Education: Grammar Schools (23 Nov 2022)

Jonathan Gullis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, pursuant to the Answer of 15 November 2022 to Question 80958 on Grammar Schools, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of removing legislative restrictions on the establishment of new grammar schools; and if she will make a statement.

Written Answers — Department for Education: Schools: Admissions (15 Nov 2022)

Jonathan Gullis: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of removing legislative restrictions on the establishment of new grammar schools.

Education: Topical Questions (23 May 2022)

Jonathan Gullis: The decision to scrap grammar schools was once described as “a real tragedy for this country…they are a very important part of the mix in our educational system…and they should be supported”. I completely agree with the Prime Minister and I am glad that the Secretary of State is also so supportive, saying that he wants to “spread the DNA” of grammar schools across the education...

Preventing Crime and Delivering Justice (11 May 2022)

Jonathan Gullis: ...a previous parliamentary Session, because it is about time that boards of trustees are held to the same standards as the teachers who work within their profession. I also wrote not long ago about grammar schools. I know that some Conservative Members will say I am just dragging up an age-old Tory argument, and Labour Members will be going, “Oh, here we go—a bit of blue on blue!”...

Government’s Education Catch-up and Mental Health Recovery Programmes ( 3 Feb 2022)

Jonathan Gullis: ...indicates that that is the direction of travel. Finally, we have selective education by religion, by postcode and by house price; it is about time we unlocked selective education by bringing back grammar schools so that parents have opportunity and competition in their local area. I will shortly be leading a campaign to unlock that potential for our great country.

Education and Local Government (14 Jan 2020)

Jonathan Gullis: ...speech. Education is by far the most powerful tool we have to improve social mobility. In my own family, I have seen this at first hand. My mother, who joins me in the Gallery today, got into a grammar school off the estate in London. My father, having failed his O-levels, took up work as a caretaker to attend night school, ending up at Durham University with a Masters. The hard work,...


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