Morris attacks comprehensive schools

Morris: Seeking to restore parental confidence

The Education Secretary Estelle Morris has prompted outrage for referring to comprehensive schools she wouldn't touch "with a barge pole".

More specialist schools, more city academies and beacon schools, that's the future for secondary education according to the Estelle Morris.

In a speech in London she said four decades of comprehensive education had let down too many pupils. And she's called for a new kind of comprehensive that will encourage diversity and achievement.

We hear from Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis, John Clare, education editor for the Telegraph and Harry Brighouse of the Institute of Education.

Click on the link above right to hear these interviews - and a report from our Education Correspondent Mike Baker.

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