Mr Gove dismisses GCSE grade critics
Anger over exam marks as grade boundaries are changed, causing accusations of disadvantaging this year’s students.
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Anger over exam marks as grade boundaries are changed, causing accusations of disadvantaging this year’s students.
Multi-millionaire fraudster Michael Brown could remain in Spain for at least six months while Spanish authorities organise his UK extradition hearing and any appeals, lawyers say.
Lord Heseltine received the freedom of the City of Liverpool, on the day that the creation of thousands of jobs was announced. But all the main political parties seem to be fighting over the Heseltine inheritance of industrial activism.
Following last week’s announcement by Alun Michael that’s he’s trying to become Labour’s candidate for police and crime commissioner (PCC) for the South Wales area (as I forecast here a few weeks ago), his son Tal tweeted me this morning to announce that he himself is now running for police commissioner in North Wales.
As four primary schools launch a legal challenge against Michael Gove for “forcing” them to accept academy status, Channel 4 News speaks to the parents battling to save their school.
The government says it has no plans to change Britain’s gun laws after a horrific shooting on New Year’s Day that left four people dead. We have some of the toughest gun laws in the world already, ministers have said. That’s almost exactly what Theresa May said 18 months ago, after taxi driver Derrick Bird shot 12 people dead in Cumbria with legally-owned guns.
A recession? Perhaps not technically. But many would argue that GDP per head is a much more meaningful measure of economic activity.
Amid reports that Greece’s defence minister has sacked his defence chiefs, premier Papandreou fights to hold his government together over a referendum pledge on the latest eurozone bailout.
Michael Gove rejects the image of kids taking classes under “leaky roofs”. In fact, he claims the government is spending more over the next four years than Labour did in its first two parliaments.
Education Secretary Michael Gove tells Channel 4 News the prime minister has told him to “get a move on” with widening choice in education, as the government’s free school policy falls under scrutiny.
As public sector workers prepare for walkouts across the country on 30 June, Education Secretary Michael Gove warns that teachers risk losing public respect if they engage in “militancy”.
The claim “£180m will be available for this bursary fund – enough to ensure that every child eligible for free school meals who chooses to stay on could be paid £800 per year – more than many receive under the current EMA arrangements”. Michael Gove MP, Education Secretary, announcing the replacement EMA scheme in the House of Commons, March 28, 2011
Our Political Editor Gary Gibbon reports on the deal thrashed out between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems on a replacement for the Educational Maintenance Allowance.
Education Secretary Michael Gove announces a new £180m bursary fund to help the poorest over 16-year-olds stay in education. It replaces the £560m EMA scheme cut in last year’s Spending Review.
As the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, launches a review aimed at restoring “academic rigour” to the national curriculum, Samira Ahmed looks back at the roots of his beliefs.