This Happy Breed: what the heck are British values?
Like Michael Gove, I think there are such things as “British values”. It’s just that I probably won’t agree with him on what they are.
Like Michael Gove, I think there are such things as “British values”. It’s just that I probably won’t agree with him on what they are.
Michael Gove warns that all schools could now face “no-notice” inspections – but the head of Ofsted says the education secretary blocked their introduction two years ago.
Michael Gove’s call for schools to promote “British values” has caused something of a stir on Twitter and Facebook. So what’s the verdict? Here is our slightly unscientific attempt to find out.
Requiring schools to “promote British values” and introducing no-notice inspections, are just two of the measures Michael Gove wants to introduce to tackle extremism in schools.
Labour’s Yvette Cooper calls on the home secretary to explain why she released a letter criticising Michael Gove, which resulted in the resignation of one of her advisers.
Education Secretary Michael Gove apologises to the prime minister after his row with Theresa May over the “Trojan horse” school claims, despite earlier saying it was not damaging to the government.
Conservative cabinet ministers Theresa May and Michael Gove issue a joint statement saying they are “working together” on alleged Islamist extremism in schools following a dispute over the issue.
Classic American novels Of Mice and Men and To Kill a Mockingbird could be dropped from the new GCSE English exams by Education Secretary Michael Gove in favour of works by British authors.
Michael Gove is an “ideologically obsessed zealot” who pushed through £400m of cuts to funding for extra school places to help plug a financial black hole in the free schools project, it is claimed.
The DCLG objected to Michael Gove’s plan to pull in a former head of police counter terrorism operations to oversee an investigation into schools in Birmingham.
Senior police figures criticise Michael Gove’s “desperately unfortunate” decision to appoint a former anti-terror chief to investigate an alleged Islamist plot to take over 25 schools in Birmingham.
“Sir Isaac Newton would be turning in his grave”: physicists are appalled at the gravity of equation errors in the government’s new GCSE combined science syllabus.
Thousands of schools across England and Wales face disruption and closures as teachers stage a national walkout in an ongoing row over pay and conditions.
With more than 500,000 children learning which secondary school they are going to in September, Channel 4 News asks: did you get a place at your first choice school?
One of England’s biggest academy chains is giving up control of 10 schools amid concern over its standards, as campaigners say it is more evidence of why academies should be Ofsted inspected.