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For: All schools, state as well as private should be allowed to select their own pupils

Speaker: Lord Norman Tebbit

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Lord Tebbit endorses the motion by stating that the current "one size fits all" system of education is not working, and that middle class families currently have disproportionate access to the best education because they can buy houses in the right catchment areas. He also suggests that we should denationalise schools and let them run themselves.

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  Lord Norman Tebbit

  British Conservative politician and former Member of Parliament for Chingford

Chapters

• Introduction: All schools should select their own pupils

  Joan Bakewell

  42 sec

• For: All schools should select their own pupils

  Professor Chris Woodhead

  9 min 32 sec

• Against: All schools should select their pupils

  David Blunkett MP

  9 min 04 sec

• Questions from the Floor (I): All schools should select their own pupils

  7 min 34 sec

• For: All schools should select their own pupils

  Martin Stephen

  7 min 59 sec

• Against: All schools should select their own pupils

  Fiona Millar

  5 min 21 sec

• For: All schools should select their own pupils

  Norman Tebbit

  12 min 34 sec

• Against: All schools should select their own pupils

  William Atkinson

  15 min 1 sec

• Questions from the Floor (II): All schools should select their own pupils

  24 min 29 sec

• Summations: All schools should select their own pupils

  10 min 6 sec

• Final Vote: All schools should select their own pupils

  5 min 46 sec

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