Gary Gibbon
Michael Gove’s Freudian slip?
Interesting slip by Michael Gove in the Commons on tactical voting. Interesting because it was a slip, blogs Gary Gibbon.
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Gove’s ‘academic rigour’ was born at Oxford
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.
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Gary Gibbon
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Tuition fees plans for poor students ‘won’t work’
Plans to make it easier for poorer students to study at university under the new tuition fees regime have been criticised by the body representing UK universities.
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Cameron forces Gove to rethink school sports cuts
Following a public outcry over cuts to funding for school sports, the prime minister David Cameron says there will now be a review of the policy.
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School sports cuts: David Cameron’s statistical sticky wicket
David Cameron says there has not been “a lot of progress” on school sport under Labour, but he’s selective about his statistics, Factcheck finds.
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LIVE BLOG: students protest against tuition fee hike
Students are marching out on a second day of protest at the government’s plans to raise the cap on tuition fees. Follow Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson at the demo and add your voice here.
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Michael Gove admits Pupil Premium recycle
Education Secretary Michael Gove admits the some of the funding for the Pupil Premium will come from elsewhere in the education budget, as FactCheck previously found out.
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LIVE BLOG: join us on #c4news at 7pm, Tues 5 Oct
On #c4news tonight, exclusive video showing the death of an army officer in Afghanistan and we reveal figures showing that care homes’ budgets will cut by 11 per cent next year. Join the live blog.
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Gary Gibbon
Gove was ‘repeatedly’ warned over school cuts list
At the Education Select Committee and another quango on death row is in the spotlight – Tim Byles, head of Partnership for Schools.
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Gary Gibbon
Gove goes on the attack over school building row
Gary Gibbon blogs on how Michael Gove’s allies are convinced there is a mole in the education department as the row continues over mistakes in the cancellation of the Building Schools for the Future project.
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Balls’ statistical failing on free school meals
Is Ed Balls right to say Michael Gove is using misleading statistics on the number of free school meals pupils who go to Oxbridge?
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Gary Gibbon
Can Gove’s schools revolution live up to expectations?
If the Tories are to be believed I am at the birth of a schools revolution. It’s a gathering in the basement of the Royal Commonwealth Society in Whitehall.
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Gary Gibbon
Tories plan a cull of poorly performing teachers
There is a cull on the way if the Tories come to power – a purge of what they consider to be poorly performing teachers.
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Gary Gibbon
Totting up the Tories’ second job earnings
David Cameron’s self-denying ordinance on Shadow Cabinet outside interests will look to many in his own party like a bit of tokenism. At his press conference this morning David Cameron made the argument FOR MPs having outside interests, even mentioned that he used to have some himself when he was Shadow Education spokesman. Then he…
