Within days of each other, we had the Government's White Paper on Secondary Education in which foundation schools, city academies and the like were being championed as the way forward.
Such schools would not only be able to set their own curriculum but would also be able to set their own admission policies.
However, locally, we also had Labour-controlled Brighton and Hove City Council publish its own consultation document on secondary school admissions in the city.
This document is based on the premise that it is the Local Education Authority which decides the admissions policy, not the individual schools.
If this is joined-up thinking, I've got scrambled egg as a brain.
-Lynne Nicholls, Brighton
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