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Eleven Plus Exams Tuition shortlisted for National Tutoring Awards 2026
We are thrilled to announce that Eleven Plus Exams will be supporting the National Tutoring Awards 2026 as Platinum Sponsors, and that we have also been...
Eleven Plus Exams Finalists at the Education Resources Awards 2026
We’re proud to share more exciting news from a remarkable season of recognition. For the second year in a row, Eleven Plus Exams is honoured to...
Eleven Plus Exams signs the Publishers Association’s new Publishing Inclusion Pledge
Eleven Plus Exams has joined over 50 publishing industry colleagues as a founding signatory of the Publishing Inclusion Pledge 2026-28, launched last week by the Publishers...
Eleven Plus Exams CEO named The Enterprise World’s Most Influential Business Leader to Follow 2026
We are delighted to announce that Eleven Plus Exams CEO, Ilesh Kotecha, has been named one of The Enterprise World’s Most Influential Business Leaders to Follow...
Eleven Plus Exams Named Finalist at the GESS Awards 2025
We are delighted to share that Eleven Plus Exams was named a finalist in the GESS (Global Educational Supplies and Solutions) Education Awards 2025. The awards...
Eleven Plus Exams at the National Tutors’ Conference 2025
Eleven Plus Exams showcased our products, services and expertise at the 2025 National Tutors’ Conference, hosted by the Tutors' Association, at The Royal Lancaster Hotel in...
Finalists for Online School of the Year in the National Tutoring Awards 2025
We’re proud to share that Eleven Plus Exams Tuition was named a Finalist for Online School of the Year at the National Tutoring Awards 2025, held...
Eleven Plus Exams CEO finalist in the 2025 Allica Bank Great British Entrepreneur Awards
Eleven Plus Exams’ CEO and founder, Ilesh Kotecha, has been named a finalist in the 2025 Allica Bank Great British Entrepreneur Awards, shortlisted in the Technology...
Eleven Plus Exams CEO named EdTech Innovation CEO of the Year
Eleven Plus Exams’ CEO, Ilesh Kotecha, has been named one of the recipients of the CEO of the Year Awards UK 2025, presented by the Excellence...
Eleven Plus Exams Finalists in the Education Resources Awards 2025
The Education Resources Awards 2025 shortlist has been announced! Eleven Plus Exams are thrilled to be selected as finalists in the following categories: Supplier of the...
Eleven Plus Exams Finalists in EducationInvestor Awards 2025
Eleven Plus Exams are delighted to announce that we have been selected as finalists in the EducationInvestor Awards 2025, organised by Nexus Media Group, in the...
Celebrating 20 Years of Eleven Plus Exams
Our site, elevenplusexams.co.uk, was founded in August 2004 along with our 11 Plus Exams Forum, the nation’s most trusted, free, impartial source of 11+ advice. We’re...
People’s Choice for Tuition Partner of the Year 2024
It was an honour to receive the People’s Choice Award for Tuition Partner 2024 at the National Tutoring Awards last Friday. This year's awards ceremony was...
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Ripon Grammar School named top performing secondary school in the North for the tenth year running by The Sunday Times
Students and staff at Ripon Grammar School are celebrating after being named the top performing state school in...
The best private schools in Wales ranked by the Sunday Times
Four of the top 10 independent secondary schools across Wales are in Cardiff, a city which the Parent...
Can you solve it? Can you battle like a maths wizard?
Try your hand at these puzzles for smart 12-year-olds
School league tables: the best UK secondary schools revealed
Girls-only schools appear to have coped better with the effects of the pandemic than boys in single-sex or...
Moving to a grammar school showed me how selective schooling can be a good thing for children
Here a parent decides to send their child to school is a personal choice. Political dogma about class...
POLL: Should the grammar school 11-plus entry exam be abolished?
SHOULD the 11-plus entry exam be abolished?
MPs and peers do worse than 10-year-olds in maths and English Sats
Campaigners seeking abolition of year 6 Sats staged event at which children invigilated tests on parliamentarians.
Tory grammar school policy is not clear but signs of unease with selective system are there
OPINION: It is a question that probably won’t be in any Christmas cracker: how many grammar schools are...
House of Lords debate on scrapping grammar schools told comprehensives ‘lack discipline’
A Conservative peer has claimed that many comprehensive schools “lack discipline” and hold back more able children.
Rishi Sunak abandons plan for new grammar schools despite campaign pledge
The Prime Minister said he supported expansion of existing grammar schools during Conservative leadership campaign.
Campaign backed by senior Labour figures that hopes to axe grammar schools and 11-plus exam launches today
The Time’s Up For The Test campaign aims to abolish the 11-plus exam. It has been backed by...
Essex school chief launches campaign against 11-plus exam: ‘I think it’s really toxic’
So fierce is the competition for places that schools have had to tailor their entry requirements to stop...