Gove takes a kicking.

[cooky1257]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-12171281

The Education Secretary has reformed the school league tables system and introduced a new English Baccalaureate.

The government says it is empowering parental choice by informing them of school standards in a core number of subject areas.

[matthewr]

This thread disappoints

[cooky1257]

Originally Posted by matthewr

This thread disappoints

Never mind. Try starting one that doesn't.

[Still]

Hillary Clinton follows in Gove's footsteps: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12170071

[matthewr]

Originally Posted by cooky1257

Never mind. Try starting one that doesn't.

No I meant that Gove didn't literally get a kicking, hence the smiley, was not having a snipe or anything like that.

[cooky1257]

Originally Posted by matthewr

No I meant that Gove didn't literally get a kicking, hence the smiley, was not having a snipe or anything like that.

Ah, but you posted a saddy.
Well it wasn't quite a Belgrano moment but I thought the caller had him tbh.
His points about Gove's narrow agenda for factory schooling/what is important and the detriment of the arts had him on the hop.

[Jo Sharp]

Originally Posted by matthewr

This thread disappoints

just to add to your disappoinment:

Lord Adonis backs Gove rather than Ed Balls:

Ed Balls has declared Gove’s plans for academies as ‘a total perversion of Labour’s policy, which was about turning round under-performing schools in disadvantaged areas’. Adonis’s response is rather different. ‘Neither I nor Tony Blair believed that academies should be restricted to areas with failing schools. We wanted all schools to be eligible for academy status, and we were enthusiastic about the idea of entirely new schools being established on the academy model, as in Michael Gove’s Free Schools policy.’

He says that, for Labour, it was a question of sequencing. ‘The most urgent challenge facing English education is the replacement of failing and underperforming comprehensives. We focused academies accordingly, and the coalition would be wise to do so too. Eradicating the tail of failing comprehensives is what will transform English education — and English society.’

Article in the Spectator.

[TheDecameron]

Cooky,
Dave will have to make a number of human sacrifices to placate the public over time and I think this duck billed platypus will be the first. When he and the Clegg can even sideline Cable for a black shirt like Chunt, you can see the way things are going.

[SteveS1]

Cable has side-lined himself by saying silly things trying to impress totty.

[Patrick Dixon]

Originally Posted by matthewr

No I meant that Gove didn't literally get a kicking, hence the smiley, was not having a snipe or anything like that.

Put him in your crosshairs - and wind the nutters up.

[Joe Hutch]

Originally Posted by Jo Sharp

Lord Adonis

Probably the least appropriate title ever bestowed.

[Mick P]

Chaps

That wasn't a kicking. It wasn't even a tickling with a feather duster.

Gove is doing a damn good job and is beginning to make progress.

He strongest trait is that he knows what he wants and he ignores what the overbloated teaching establishment want. He is pushing agendas through without consultation and that is scaring the living daylights out of the old doderers in the system. We are getting back to basics and about time too.

He is a breath of fresh air and I like him.

Regards

Mick

[Bob McC]

When even the High Master at Manchester Grammar school, one of the best performing independent schools in the country says he is wrong, his days are numbered.

[Mick P]

Originally Posted by Bob McC

When even the High Master at Manchester Grammar school, one of the best performing independent schools in the country says he is wrong, his days are numbered.

Bob

You were writing Vince Cable off just before Christmas and he is still around.

The simple fact is that Gove is doing what most parents want and that unfortunately means sticking two fingers up to the educational establishment.

He is not changing the old guard, he is sacking them via budget cuts.

Regard

Mick

[cooky1257]

Retrofitting new measures onto league tables has angered headteachers and leaves questions about Gove's priorities.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...ue-tables-gove