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Education and Inspections Bill

My hon. Friend is right. For specialist schools, there is selection by aptitude for 10 per cent. of pupils. It is extremely difficult for anyone to discern the difference between selection by aptitude and selection by ability. As the chief schools adjudicator put it so well,"““Finding a difference between the meaning of two such words is the sort of exercise lexicographers get up to when they haven’t enough to do.””" The fact that the difference between aptitude and ability appears to be a fundamental distinction on which the Government’s education policy rests reveals what a fragile structure it is.