Academic excellence despite segregation
Despite the fact that we have faith schools (largely Catholic) and State schools (largely Protestant), we also produce the best levels of academic attainment in the UK because we have preserved academic selection.
At a time when, in Britain, the Labour Party is splitting at the seams over an education bill that might reinstate a modicum of selection, we have showed that the best way to educate children is to stream them on the basis of ability - between schools and within them.
