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Stephen Mold's Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Last night I went to hear Shadow Children’s Secretary, Michael Gove, set out the five priorities on school reform for a future Conservative Government. In a speech to the Centre for Policy Studies yesterday, Gove pledged that a Conservative government "will improve standards for all pupils and close the attainment gap between the richest and poorest". He outlined a five-point plan for...
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Lightwater (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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 [...]
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News Scotsman (Free subscription) | yesterday
SHADOW children, schools and families secretary Michael Gove is to visit Edinburgh next week.
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Another interesting thing to emerge from the David Cameron interview I pointed out earlier is his religion: "I've a sort of fairly classic Church of England faith, a faith that grows hotter and colder by moments but...I suppose I sort of started life believing that one's individual faith was important, but actually the institutions of the church were less important. "I do think that organised...
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Lightwater (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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. Such is the case with Michael Gove’s, Shadow Secretary of State for Children,...
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Les Bonner (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
The Liberal Democrat Shadow Schools Secretary, David Laws said when Commenting on Michael Gove’s speech on Tory education aims: “Tory education policy has more loose ends than a plate of spaghetti. “This speech highlights tensions between Michael Gove’s claim to be freeing up schools and the reality of the Tories’ obsession with continuing the policy of meddling [...]
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
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 "the engines of social mobility" in a speech spelling out his party's education...
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Working Class Tory (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
I'm very glad to see Michael Gove's education plans being finalised. The themes of handing power back power to teachers, and protecting them are very important. Labour has attacked honourable teachers in the same way Stalin attacked the kulaks. They have criminalised them and removed all rights and respect from them. They are an oppressed class, having to be part-teacher, part-social worker and part-policeman,...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Head teachers would be given powers to dismiss poor teachers and pay bonuses to good ones under a Conservative government, Michael Gove said last night in a speech setting out his party’s education policy in detail for the first time.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A Conservative Government would make it harder to become a teacher by raising entry requirements for the profession, the party's education spokesman Michael Gove declared tonight.
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Evan Price (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I am a father of 2 young children. The eldest is due to go to primary school next year and we are lucky enough to live within about half a mile (as the crow flies) of 3 good primary schools ... but Our neighbours tell us that when their children were at the same age, the local authority, in its infinite wisdom, decided that one of them could go to a school about 45 minutes drive away on the other side...
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Skipper (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Excellent analysis in an article by Peter Oborne yesterday on Cameron and Europe. He locates the core of the problem with the Tory rank and file. For some reason they perceive Europe as the heart of darkness: a potential supranational dictatorship unlimited by democratic constraints. As they see it, this malign juggernaut- quite possibly the vehicle for revived German plans to dominiate Europe(Oh yes,...
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Dare to Know (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
We repeatedly read of groups other than home educators who suffer terrible frustrations with policies emanating from Mr Balls and the DCSF. Usually it is parents who are not allowed to parent any more . From this story we hear that Claude Knights, the founder of children's charity Kidscape, said that the council were: "using a sledgehammer to crack nuts. They are encouraging a climate where parents...
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Mark Wadsworth (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Yesterday's Evening Standard accompanied this article with an inset headed "Revealed: Losers under new 60-minute travel rule" . I can't find the inset online, so I've scanned it in for you below. It continues: Under new rules, MPs living within an hour's commute by train from London will be barred from having a second home... there are likely to be just 12 MPs affected. The Standard has estimated...
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Covenant Zone (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
"Our face is our autobiography", historian Will Durant remarked in one of his 1,000-page volumes on the Story of Civilization . This observation compliments one made by another Will -- William Shakespeare, in As You Like It : "All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts..."...
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