Our coalition is made up of organisations and individuals who want to see an end to the 11-plus. If you would like to be added to our list of supporters please get in touch.
Campaign for the Advancement of State Education
The Centre for Education and Youth
New Visions for Education group
Bell Ribero Addy MP
Apsana Begum MP
Melissa Benn, writer and campaigner
John Bercow, former Speaker of the House of Commons
Baroness Christine Blower, Labour peer and former General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers
Tony Burke, President of the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions
Professor Roger Brown, former Vice-Chancellor of Southampton Solent University
Dr Nuala Burgess, educational researcher and campaigner
Richard Burgon MP
Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester
Dale Campbell-Savours, Lord Campbell-Savours, Labour peer
Alastair Campbell, former Director of Communications for Tony Blair, author, and host of ‘The Rest Is Politics’ podcast
Sameena Choudry, founder of Equitable Education
Peter Collard, CASE National Executive Committee
Demitri Coryton, Chair of the Education Publishing Company Ltd.
Marc Davenant, documentary and street photographer and two-time winner of the Portrait of Britain competition
Mike Davies, former secondary school headteacher
Natasha Devon, writer, campaigner and broadcaster
Danny Dorling, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford
Greg Dyke, former director-general of the BBC
John Edmonds, former General Secretary of the GMB and President of the TUC
Bernardine Evaristo, writer and Booker Prize winner
Tony Gallagher, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work, Queen’s University Belfast
John Galloway, Independent Writer and Consultant
Sol Gamsu, Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of Durham
Professor John Gardner, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Stirling
Ron Glatter, Professor of Educational Management and Administration, The Open University
Prof Helen Gunter, Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership and Management in the School of Education, University of Manchester
John Hammett, former General Secretary of Usdaw
Richard Harris, CASE National Executive Committee
Billy Hayes, former General Secretary of CWU
Prof Joanne Hughes MBE, UNESCO Chair, Director of the Centre for Shared Education, School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work
Philip Hunt, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, Labour peer
Richard Huntington, Chief Strategy Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi
Mike Ion, director Aventi Schools Trust
Lewis Iwu, co-founder of Purpose Union and founding Director of the Fair Education Alliance
David Jackson, founding Director at the National College for School Leadership, and Senior Associate at Innovation Unit
Remi Joseph-Salisbury, UCU, University of Manchester
Lord Kinnock, former Leader of the Labour Party
Clive Lewis MP
Dr Keith Lichman, former Secretary of CASE
Ken Loach, film maker
Professor Rachel Lofthouse, Professor of Teacher Education and Director of CollectivED, Leeds Beckett University
Vix Lowthian, education spokesperson for the Green Party
Caroline Lucas MP
Naheeda Maharasingham, head teacher
Jackie Malton, former DCI and author of ‘The Real Prime Suspect’
Peter Mandler, Professor in Modern Cultural History at the University of Cambridge
Thomas Mann, recently Head of Inclusion, Kingsbury High School, Edgware, Vice-Chair of CASE
James Mannion, Rethinking Education
Melian Mansfield MBE, Chair of the Campaign for State Education
Jane Martin, Professor of the Social History of Education, Birmingham University
Steve Mastin of the Conservative Education Society
Christina McAnea, General Secretary of Unison
Sir David Melville, Chair of Pearson Education Ltd
Fiona Millar, writer and campaigner
Christopher Millward, Professor of Practice in Education Policy, Birmingham University
John Monks, former General Secretary of TUC
Andrew O’Neill Headteacher of All Saints Catholic College
Kate Osborne MP
Alan Parker, education consultant and former Director of Education at the London Borough of Ealing
Keither Parker, Head of Initial Teacher Education at York St John University
Carl Parsons, Emeritus Professor of Education, Canterbury Christ Church University
Dr Tara Porter, author and clinical psychologist
Michael Pyke, Member of CASE NEC and Editor of CASEnotes
Diane Reay, Professor of Education at the University of Cambridge
Michael Rosen, children’s author, poet and columnist
Chris Searle, former teacher and lifelong NEU member
Ryan Shorthouse, Bright Blue
Gary Smith, General Secretary of GMB
David Taylor, former secondary school headteacher
Reverend Stephen Terry, Former Chair of Accord
Peter Thomson, former Vice-Chair of CASE
Selina Todd, Professor of Modern History, Oxford University
Sally Tomlinson, Honorary Fellow, Education Department, University of Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Education, Goldsmiths’ College, University of London
Raj Unsworth, Chair of the Partition Group and Specialist Advisor to Headteachers’ Roundtable
Louise Vincent, D.Phil student, University of Oxford
Mick Waters, educationist
Baron Watson of Invergowrie, former Labour Education Spokesperson in the House of Lords
Sir Michael Wilshaw, former Chief Inspector of Schools
Alice Woolley, former Guardian education editor