Tag Archives: Michael Gove

Improvement in our schools is not helped by Ofsted’s soundbites

By Guest | Published: June 14, 2013

For the second time this week the education sector has taken a beating, this time with the Ofsted report on the way that schools support high ability pupils.

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Simply making exams harder does not guarantee higher standards

By Guest | Published: June 12, 2013

To date school leaders have not been consulted over the development of the new GCSE syllabuses so it is highly premature to design new qualifications before this consultation has been finalised. It is now time for our legitimate voice to be listened to carefully and acted upon.

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Michael Gove should be held to account over the crisis facing London’s schools

By Guest | Published: May 25, 2013

I would like to see Michael Gove asked the following question: does he stand for every school child, or just those who attend academies and free schools?

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School spending cannot be cut like this without compromising standards

By Guest | Published: May 24, 2013

I cannot be the only person with personal experience of managing schools whose jaw dropped at reading the headlines of the Reform report launched last week: Must Do Better: Spending on Schools. Based on lots of number crunching of data tables, it came to the conclusion that school spending could be cut by close to 20 per cent without compromising standards.

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Michael Gove vs Reality

By James Bloodworth | Published: April 3, 2013

Short video from the NASUWT documenting education secretary Michael Gove’s long struggle with reality.

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The meaning of Gove

By Adam Wadsworth | Published: March 22, 2013

In a letter to The Independent and The Daily Telegraph this week, a hundred education academics criticised Michael Gove’s controversial new curriculum proposals as an “endless list of spelling, facts and rules” that will prove “miserable for children”.

Left Foot Forward has looked at some of the changes to the school curriculum proposed by Michael Gove and the criticism they’ve received.

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PM visits India while new figures show no UK students studying main Indian language in school

By Left Foot Forward | Published: February 18, 2013

While the prime minister visits India, new figures reveal that not a single UK child has studies Hindi for GCSE or A-Levels in the past year.

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GCSEs u-turn: Wales welcomes “foolish and unhelpful” Gove as the “repentant sinner”

By Ed Jacobs | Published: February 8, 2013

Welsh education minister Leighton Andrews has welcomed Michael Gove’s humiliating u-turn on GCSEs, declaring the education secretary a “repentant sinner”.

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Gove: Ebaccs will give us most rigorous education system in the world

By James Bloodworth | Published: February 7, 2013

Michael Gove has done a U-turn over plans to scrap GCSEs.

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Twigg: Gove is the “enemy of promise”

By Guest | Published: January 24, 2013

Shadow education secretary Stephen Twigg MP responds to today’s school league tables.

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