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单词 direct-grant school
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Definition of direct-grant school in English:

direct-grant school

noun
historical
  • (in the UK) a fee-paying school that received funds from the government in return for the admission of non-paying pupils nominated by the local authority.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • There is no doubt that, left to his own devices, Lord Adonis would reintroduce direct-grant schools.
    • He attended a direct-grant school which expected its pupils to be on track for Oxford or Cambridge.
    • Different Labour governments - sometimes with the tacit support of Conservatives - have destroyed the academic infrastructure in the secondary schools, the grammar schools and the direct-grant schools.
    • The working party will also look at proposals from Martin Stephen, headmaster of Manchester Grammar, who favours bringing the former direct-grant schools into a formal relationship with the state system.
    • He gets a scholarship to a direct-grant school, Latymer Upper in Hammersmith.
 
 
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