New research, published by the Institute for Public Policy Research lastweek, showed schools that act as their own admissions authorities aremuch less representative of their local area.
Richard Brooks, head of services at the institute, called on schools tostop administering their own admissions process: "Local authoritiesshould allocate places and, in the long term, they should move towards'area-wide fair banding'."
But schools minister Jim Knight said it was irrelevant whether a schooloperates its own admission criteria. "We have brought in a new, tough,mandatory school admissions code to outlaw unfair practices that lead tosocial segregation and penalise children from low-income backgrounds,"he said.
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