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  Education Bill - Selection by aptitude - rejected
  
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  <p>The majority No voters rejected a new clause for the <a href="http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200102/cmbills/087/2002087.htm">Education Bill</a>.  <p>The clause would have removed the ability of state schools to select pupils by aptitude (except if the selection arrangements predated the 1997-8 school year and had been in force continuously since).
  
  </p>The clause reads as follows:</p>
  
  <blockquote><p>'(1) <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_1">The School Standards and Framework Act 1998</a> (c. 59) is amended as follows.</p>
  
  <p>(2) <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_9#pt3-ch2-pb1-l1g99">Clause 99 (General restriction on selection by ability or aptitude)</a> is amended by leaving out subsection (4)(b).</p>
  
  <p>(3) <a href="http://www.opsi.gov.uk/acts/acts1998/ukpga_19980031_en_9#pt3-ch2-pb1-l1g102">Clause 102 (Permitted Selection: aptitude for particular subjects.)</a> shall cease to have effect.'<a href="#footnote-1"><sup>[1]</sup></a></p></blockquote>
  
  <i><ul><li><p id="footnote-1">[1] <a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2002-02-06.972.7">Phil Willis MP,</a> House of Commons, 6 February 2002</i></ul></li></p>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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