Michael Gove

Michael Gove
Education Secretary Michael Gove's New Education Policy to Turn Schools Into 'Academy' Faces Hurdles
by
Stephen W B Canning
In one big of the biggest policy changes to have hit the Britain education system in over a decade, Education Secretary Michael Gove sent invitations to over 20,000 schools in Britain to upgrade to Academies. According to his new policy academies will be able to work independently without having to report back to the local authority and prepare their own teaching method and curriculum.
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id=4983411 - Sep 04, 2010
Legal Challenge to Gove's Cuts
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Luke Robinson
The coalition government looks set to face yet another problem over education. After the fiasco with the scrapping of tuition fees and the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), the Education Secretary Michael Gove now faces a legal challenge. This revolves around his decision to abolish the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) scheme.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Legal-Challenge-to-Goves-Cuts
id=5798580 - Jan 26, 2011
UK Education: What's the Plan?
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James Oliver Gibson
Michael Gove has just abandoned his plans to scrap GCSEs and replace them with a universal English Baccalaureate Certificate. The Tory Education Secretary had previously wanted to prevent the "dumbing down" of GCSEs by focussing all courses on a universal exam board which would administer all examinations at the end of each 2 year course. This would also mean that the significance of coursework would be dropped.
http://ezinearticles.com/?UK-Education:-Whats-the-Plan?
id=7500458 - Feb 09, 2013
Fifteen Minutes of Fame for the Free School
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Luke Robinson
Education Secretary Michael Gove is putting a brave face on the numbers of schools applying for "Free School" status. He told Andrew Marr this weekend that of 700 initially expressing an interest, 16 schools have formally applied to adopt this status from September 2011 and that this has "exceeded his expectations". But Ed Balls, the shadow education secretary, described it as "laughable" that Mr Gove considers his expectations to have been exceeded with the numbers declaring an interest.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame-for-the-Free-School
id=5002297 - Sep 08, 2010
Want a Decent Education? Don't Do A-Levels
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Luke Robinson
The Royal Society, one of Britain's leading scientific institutions, has declared A-Levels "not fit for purpose". This conclusion stems from the fact that relatively few pupils deciding on the usual 3 A-Level subjects will choose to do a science or maths. Across the UK in 2009, 17% of 16 to 18-year-olds took one or more science A-level, or equivalent qualification, the report says.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Want-a-Decent-Education?-Dont-Do-A-Levels
id=5930924 - Feb 15, 2011
One in Ten Secondary Schools Now Classed As 'Academies'
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Harvey McEwan
Figures released have revealed that one tenth of all secondary schools in England have been granted academy status under the new legislation of the Department for Education. The re-classification of 407 primary and secondary schools has taken place in England so far, in what has been Education secretary Michael Gove's flagship reform since coming to power.
http://ezinearticles.com/?One-in-Ten-Secondary-Schools-Now-Classed-As-Academies
id=5672148 - Jan 06, 2011
Are Flat-Pack State Schools The Way Forward?
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Harvey McEwan
In a scenario which would seem at home in Huxley's Brave New World, the suggestions come after the previous construction work under the BSF scheme was brought to a halt in July by education secretary Michael Gove. The Building Schools for the Future scheme was first introduced in 2004 under Tony Blair, and was the most ambitious school building project of the past century.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Are-Flat-Pack-State-Schools-The-Way-Forward?
id=6166715 - Apr 11, 2011
Will The Academies Work?
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Stephen W B Canning
The new academies are one of the most radical things that the new government is offering.
But will they work?
http://ezinearticles.com/?Will-The-Academies-Work?
id=4983413 - Sep 24, 2010
About the UK Academies Bill
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Thomas Goodwin
The Academies Bill is first major piece of education related legislation passed by the new coalition government. According to the number10 website the purpose of the bill is to create "a world beating school system in which every parent has access to a good school and all pupils achieve high standards". The Academies Bill will allow any school in England and Wales to opt out of local government control extending the legacy left by Labour PM Tony Blair who pioneered the city academy scheme to raise educational standards in deprived inner city areas.
http://ezinearticles.com/?About-the-UK-Academies-Bill
id=4739790 - Jul 26, 2010
Independent Review For Children and Families Social Work
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Victoria Lloyd
Education Secretary Michael Gove has formally written to a leading reader in social policy at the London School of Economics, Professor Eileen Munro, for a review of children's social work. Munro's review follows years of dissatisfaction with the current system which promotes bureaucracy over necessary qualitative work such as building relationships with families in need of help.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Independent-Review-For-Children-and-Families-Social-Work