SCHOOLS should no longer be allowed to select pupils for their academic ability, according to a Government-backed report which raises a new threat to the future of grammar schools.

By KIM RILEY WHAT PRICE your child's education? That is a question that seven Birmingham grammar schools are asking parents throughout the city It is no idle inquiry. For the answers they receive could Herald a bright new future for thv schools - or sound their death knell.

By ANNA DAVIS THE first new grammar school in England for 50 years could be opened in Buckinghamshire. Conservative-run Buckinghamshire county council said it was in the early stages of the planning process to introduce the selective school.

By Richard Garner Education Editor The big guns of education's private sector have thrown their weight behind the Government's academies programme, paving the way for their biggest ever stake in the running of state schools.

By Richard GarnerEducation Editor Pupils from Britain's top fee-paying schools are getting into the country's elite universities with lower A-level grades than pupils rejected from state schools, says a report out today.