Longer school days and shorter holidays could improve our academic performance, thinks Michael Gove. Top marks for the education secretary?
Photocopying, filing and collecting dinner money could once again be part of teachers’ workload after Michael Gove orders a review body to consider lifting restrictions on teachers working practices.
Jackie Long
The reality for many is a hugely stressful fight to get something that you might hope would be a given – a place at school where your child is safe, happy and getting the best possible education.
After mounting political pressure, Education Secretary Michael Gove tells parliament plans to replace GCSEs with a new English Baccalaureate Certificate will be shelved and existing exams improved.
Conservative cabinet members, junior ministers and party enforcers are among around 180 MPs poised to oppose or abstain in a vote on gay marriage, it was claimed today.
Jackie Long
Is “Govian” a word? Obviously it’s not but I think it ought to be. For today’s A-level reforms, announced by the secretary of state for education, are, well…very Govian.
They were set up under the Blair government to improve underperforming schools. Now, more than a decade later, academy schools could fuel rather than improve social segregation, a new report warns.
Boris Johnson and Michael Gove launch a new group campaigning for gay marriage, threatening a split from party traditionalists in opposition to the proposals.
Former soldiers will help give troubled children a sense of discipline and self-worth, according to the government, which is launching a new £1.9m initiative to pass on military values.
As Michael Gove prepares to investigate a council for removing foster children from Ukip-voting couple, confusion remains over whether the prime minister still thinks Ukip are mostly “closet racists”.
Education Secretary Michael Gove reiterates his determination to introduce a culture of tougher exams – but his desire to put rote learning at its core is going down surprisingly well.
A-level students will only be able to sit exams in the summer, meaning the number of re-sits will be capped, under the first stage of Ofqual’s A-level reforms.
Teachers under intense pressure to achieve good grades are guilty of “significantly” over-marking pupils’ GCSE coursework in some schools, says the exams regulator Ofqual.
Ofqual’s final report did little to clear up the GCSE English marking fiasco but in highlighting how some teachers “generously” marked GCSE work, does it vindicate Michael Gove’s proposed reforms?
Would-be teachers will have to sit more difficult English and maths tests to qualify for teacher training, in an attempt to raise standards in the profession, says the government.