There was a Royal Commission on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration back in 1958.
"Medicine would lose immeasurably if the proportion of middle class students in the future were reduced in favour of precocious children who qualify for subsidies from local authorities and the Sate, purely on the basis of examination results."
The Eleven Plus was developed to try make grammar education available to children who needed a chance.
Schools are beginning to change radically.
As learning becomes more individualised and personalised the ethos behind the Eleven Plus examination should also change. There should be far more emphasis on embracing change - and the content of the examination should rely less on declaiming that there is just one way to test Eleven Plus children. A new look examination could take far more into account than a pass or fail score on an eleven plus paper.
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