The govt. is due to confirm that it will spend an additional ?600million on building 100 new Free Schools. This is predicted to happen over the next 3 years.

12 of the colleges are to be selective expert maths schools, which may worry some people, but be good news for those that see selective colleges are a method of improving standards and stretching gifted children. The consultant faculties are suggested for 16-18 year olds, the age group that study for A levels. They'll have robust links with good college maths departments. The concept is they will assist in creating notable mathematicians.

Government fund Free Schools but they are run by independent suppliers, which can range all the way from parents to schools and enterprises. It is predicted the money won't come from the present education budget, but we won’t know till Tuesday when the plans are declared.

Our query is about where these new schools will be built. Hopefully they'll be built where there is requirement for them, not where the governing body would like them to be built. Free Schools are generally approved if there's a demand for places or they are to be built in a ‘deprived ‘ area. We all know there are many areas where pupils struggle to be offered a place at their favorite schools. So it's no surprise that elders and other interested parties have taken matters into their own hands and exploited the relaxed state education policy which allows folks other than the state to open community faculties, and arranged new faculties to be built or used buildings inside their communities for teaching local children.

The selective nature of a number of these schools seems to be going against what Free Schools are supposed to be, indeed, on a government website it states:

Free Schools are all-ability state-funded colleges set up responding to what area folk say they want and need to improve education for youngsters in their community. (http://www.education.gov.uk/freeschools 27/11/11)

Has administration policy modified? Either Free Schools are for all kids without reference to their ability or they aren't, the proposed situation leaves us with many questions which hopefully will be answered pretty soon.

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