Michael Gove

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• Tories to pay off loans of trainee science teachers

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Shadow schools secretary says top science graduates who go into teaching would have their loan repayments covered by a Tory goverment Good science students could have their loans paid off if they go into teaching, under Tory plans to improve teaching standards. The shadow schools secretary, Michael Gove, says a ...
  1 week ago

• False dividing lines

  
  Conor's Commentary — Authority: 419
  I have this column in todays Independent , arguing that the choices being presented on schools by Ed Balls and Michael Gove represent false dividing lines, but there are areas of real difference where both politicians should be challenged. The Queens Speech was all about dividing lines. The Schools Secretary, Ed ...
  1 week ago

• Dont let parents ruin local schools

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 163
  Toby Young wants to found his own school, but schemes like his will harm his poorer neighbours Parent-promoted schools – sounds like a great idea, doesnt it? Every parent probably has a secret vision of what their perfect school might look like. Why shouldnt an incoming Conservative government sweep away planning ...
  1 week ago

• Labour candidate needed to fight Michael Gove

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 140
  Shane Greer  has spotted the advert in the New Statesman for a Labour Party candidate to fight Michael Gove at the general election.
  1 week ago

• David Cameron and Michael Gove: Two faces of Conservatism

  
  LibDemBlogs — Authority: 175
  David Camerons early success as Conservative leader was built upon the emphasis he put upon the more appealing aspects of Toryism, such as conservation and localism. To a large extent he is a traditional aristocratic Tory, seeking power to ensure that those who are doing well out of the current system (notably D. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nick Robinson reports on the Conservatives allegations about public money funding Islamic extremists

  
  PlayPolitical.com - Conservative Party — Authority: 518
  
  2 weeks ago

• Ed Balls hits back in row over funds given to Muslim schools

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  David Cameron was accused of playing politics with education today after he said the government had sanctioned "inappropriate use of public funds" to support two independent "extremist" Muslim schools. The Conservative leader used prime ministers questions to ask Gordon Brown to explain why he had not stopped the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tories,bureaucracy and extremist schools

  
  Conor's Commentary — Authority: 419
  I hold no truck for Hizb ut-Tahrir. I would certainly share Tony Blairs instincts that they should be banned. But they are not. Nor is there any evidence that the organisation is running two independent schools in Slough and Haringey which receive state funding under the governments under-fives programme that has ...
  2 weeks ago

• It will take nerve to free schools from Whitehalls ruinous grip

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 972
  Ed Balls doesnt understand that the best engine for raising standards is not ministerial diktat but the devolution of power to parents says Matthew dAncona.
  2 weeks ago

• LDVideo … Balls, Murdoch & Jon Culshaw’s Brown rap

  
  Liberal Democrat Voice — Authority: 507
  Welcome to the latest LDVideo instalment, featuring three of the most memorable video clips doing the rounds on the blogosphere. First up is Ed Balls – the guy might have a debating style reminiscent of a school bully demanding tuck money, but here he completely out-smarts tongue-tied Tory education spokesman ...
  2 weeks ago

• Balls should put childrens futures before the teaching unions

  
  Conor's Commentary — Authority: 419
  Until yesterday, Ed Balls had commendably resisted attempts by the teaching unions to scrap accountability, by refusing to abolish testing and league tables. Yesterday, he announced pefectly reasonably that teacher assessment results would be published in league tables alongside test scores. What was unreasonable was ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dumbing down

  
  Banditry — Authority: 415
  If “Michael Gove gets his arse handed to him on a plate” is a tag you like the sound of, you’ll enjoy this clip from Parliament: (via Sam Coates Not The Tory )
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Gove silenced

  
  John Rentoul — Authority: 601
  In case you do not follow this blog on Eagle Eye, my colleague Larry Ryan has just posted this video there of Ed Balls in the House of Commons winning a debating point against his shadow, Michael Gove. This is the first time that has happened, so Im copying it over here.
  3 weeks ago

• Michael Gove teases the Education Secretary as he denounces the Queens Speech as "pure Balls"

  
  ConservativeHome's Parliament Page — Authority: 558
  Today the Queens Speech debate has seen education being debated, with Michael Gove and Ed Balls squaring up to each other at the despatch box. I think its fair to say there is no love lost between the pair, and Shadow Education Secretary Michael Gove opened his speech this afternoon with typically combative rhetoric: ...
  3 weeks ago

• Playing politics with the law

  
  Conor's Commentary — Authority: 419
  Michael Gove has been on Today bemoaning the level of electioneering in todays Queens Speech, suggesting that such tactics would have been beyond previous Prime Ministers. I presume Michael was having a laugh. Otherwise, I must have been dreaming when John Major invented a grammar school in every town just ahead of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Time for a bit of Gove and take

  
  Matthew Taylor's blog — Authority: 509
  This morning, as I worked down St James Street reflecting on an excellent breakfast belatedly to mark the launch of the Times science supplement ‘ Eureka ’, who should I walk into but Michael Gove. Although he was engrossed in a phone conversation he put his interlocutor on hold, ‘Ah, Matthew’ said the chief ...
  4 weeks ago

• Got kids? then you should read Michael’s speech

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 140
  The press and the media criticise Conservatives for lack of policy detail, wrongly in my view, it’s persistent warped spin from Labour that’s uncritically accepted by the left-leaning media.  When the Conservatives continue to announce and explain their policies in fine detail, the commentariat go missing. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Tories make universal education vow

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 987
  Michael Gove pledges to make schools engines of social mobility as he spells out Conservatives education policy The Tories last night promised to narrow the achievement gap between the poorest and richest children if they won the general election. Michael Gove, the shadow schools secretary, pledged to make schools ...
  4 weeks ago

• I’ve asked Michael Gove my question on exam results

  
  Lightwater — Authority: 140
  Readers might remember my surprise on finding that the press, for reasons unknown to me, publish about only around 15% of the school exam results, and that to find the full national exam tables is a tortuous excercise. At the end of that post, on September 1st, I said that I’d aim to ask our MP, Michael ...
  4 weeks ago

• Potentially Libellous Shite Of The Week

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 441
  Yesterdays Evening Standard accompanied this article with an inset headed "Revealed: Losers under new 60-minute travel rule" . I cant find the inset online, so Ive scanned it in for you below. It continues: Under new rules, MPs living within an hours commute by train from London will be barred from having a ...
  5 weeks ago

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