Gove and his right-wing Tory allies, such as the Daily Mail, earnestly desire to re-introduce selection , but know that if they did so straightaway in one leap they would court a whirlwind of resistance. So he’s adopted the next best thing – phasing out GCSE which was designed for Comprehensives and bringing back the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Michael Gove’
Gove calling opponents of academies ‘ideologues’ is pretty rich coming from him
Jan 6th, 2012 by Michael Meacher.Gove’s fulminating against opponents of academies as ‘ideologues happy with failure’ is a bluster that will come back to haunt him. If anyone was happy to play with children’s lives and prospects for ideological reasons, it’s him. What makes him think that merely structural change like enforcing independence from local authorities, as opposed to high-quality […]
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N30: trade unions only look dead
Nov 28th, 2011 by David Osler.Hardliners. Militants itching for a fight. Michael Gove is in no doubt about who is responsible for N30. Yet there are a couple of fundamental flaws with the education secretary’s assertion that those taking part in Wednesday’s public sector stoppage are being manipulated by an unrepresentative clique of hard left union bosses.
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Where Fox goes, is Gove far behind?
Oct 20th, 2011 by Michael Meacher.The Government has set great store on claiming that the Fox saga was a one-off. He had broken the Ministerial code, he had refused to heed warnings from his Permanent Secretary that his behaviour was outside the constitutional guidelines for such a sensitive position, and in effect he was running a privatised foreign and defence […]
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‘Free Schools’ not wanted here
May 29th, 2010 by Michael Meacher.So the Tory flagship policy of so-called ‘free schools’ has just been launched down the slipway. It has been sold as increasing choice, breaking free from the oppressive control of local authorities, and allowing parents and the local community to set up and run schools in the way they wish. The real motive is perhaps […]
