The Michael Gove File

[Steel Icarus]

http://webofwooders.com/forum/gove.htm

Has this light relief been posted before?

Lots of lovely classist arse in that, managing to have a pop at Gove yet uphold his core values. Big golf clap.

 

[J Ed]

Lots of lovely classist arse in that, managing to have a pop at Gove yet uphold his core values. Big golf clap.

...and deeply unfunny with it.

 

[eatmorecheese]

Lots of lovely classist arse in that, managing to have a pop at Gove yet uphold his core values. Big golf clap.

On a second examination, you're absolutely right. Apols.

 

[brogdale]

A 27-year-old headteacher controversially appointed to take over a free school set up by a government minister despite having no formal teaching qualifications has left her job after only six months, the Guardian can disclose.

Annaliese Briggs was appointed principal to the new Pimlico Primary in central London in March despite criticisms that she had no teaching qualifications and little experience in running a school.

The new free school is sponsored by the Future charity set up by Lord Nash, one of Michael Gove's closest allies who has been appointed minister in charge of schools, - and has only been admitting pupils for a month....blah, blah...obviously, absolutely fucking inevitable, blah...
http://www.theguardian.com/educatio...ol-head-no-teaching-qualifications-leaves-job

the arrogance of the fuckers...

 

[BlueSquareThing]

the arrogance of the fuckers...

Seems to have been off ill with stress/workload issues for a while from what I can gather.

I thought teachers had to "man up" according to Govey? From memory some of the soundbites she put out before she took the job on were fairly arrogant weren't they?

 

[brogdale]

Seems to have been off ill with stress/workload issues for a while from what I can gather.

I thought teachers had to "man up" according to Govey? From memory some of the soundbites she put out before she took the job on were fairly arrogant weren't they?

Yep, all going rather well, aren't they, these 'free' schools?

 

[Dan U]

I find it hard incredible she was given the job with no teaching quals etc. Utterly barmy.

 

[brogdale]

I find it hard incredible she was given the job with no teaching quals etc. Utterly barmy.

Unless you're one of those utter twunts 'prepared to put their ideology before the interests of the kiddy winks'...

Here's Toby Cunt in fine form just 6 months ago:-

Scarcely a day passes without some Left-wing dinosaur making a fool of themselves over education policy. Today it was the turn of Paul Dimoldenberg, a Labour councillor in Westminster. He has called for the Conservative-run council to launch an inquiry into the appointment of Annaliese Briggs as the headmistress of Pimlico Primary. His complaint is that she doesn't have a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), the qualification you get after spending a year at teacher training college.

"I can't believe how anybody could be so arrogant to believe that they can do that job when they've never taught in a school," he says. "I find it quite staggering."

In fact, Ms Briggs has taught in a school – several schools, in fact. Employed by the well-known think tank Civitas, the well-known education think tank, she helped run Civitas Schools, a network of after-school classes and Saturday schools across the country. As for her lack of credentials to run a primary school, she is one of the country's foremost experts on E D Hirsch's core knowledge curriculum and, as such, advised the Department for Education on the new primary National Curriculum....
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...pert-is-unqualified-to-run-a-new-free-school/

What a cunt.

 

[brogdale]

The inevitable outcome of Gove's neo-liberal educational experiment on our kids; Guardian sees damning Ofsted report on Al-Madinah "free school". This one passage pretty much sums it all up...

"This is a school which has been set up and run by representatives of the community with limited knowledge and experience. Leadership and management, including governance, are inadequate and have been unable to improve the school."

Maddening.

 

[brogdale]

Hunt's Commons attack, today, on Gove's 'ideological experiment' of "free schools" might carry more weight if he hadn't confirmed that

we will keep the good free schools when we get into government.

 

[brogdale]

Amongst all the Clegg/Gove guff comes this additional instance of a "free" school debacle...

.. a second unqualified headteacher of a free school has quit her post following criticism. Last week the Guardian revealed that Annaliese Briggs, a 27-year-old with no teaching qualifications who had been appointed as headteacher of Pimlico free school in London, had resigned after just three weeks in the job.

Now it has emerged that Lindsey Snowdon has stepped down from the Discovery new school in Crawley, West Sussex, after a stinging Ofsted report into her work at the 60-pupil primary free school, saying she "lacks the skills and knowledge to improve teaching".

A temporary head, experienced in turning round "failing schools", has been appointed in her place.

Gavin Gordon, a parent who took his son and daughter out of the school last year because he was so displeased with it, said: "My children were not getting the teaching they deserved and that we were promised. On reflection I think one of the reasons was that the teachers were not trained. And you could not complain to anyone. It was all run by the same family."

Gavin better watch out...

 

[Barking_Mad]

I find it hard incredible she was given the job with no teaching quals etc. Utterly barmy.

A bit like getting the job of Chancellor when your only work experience is folding towels in Selfridges.

 

[brogdale]

A bit like getting the job of Chancellor when your only work experience is folding towels in Selfridges.

Even by tory standards, there's a profound degree of willful, ideological stupidity to champion the notion of school leadership undertaken by individuals with no relevant qualification. The irony that schools themselves are specifically expected to effect individuals with qualifications, and are indeed judged by government on that metric is, of course, lost in the mists of rothbardian zeal.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Even by tory standards, there's a profound degree of willful, ideological stupidity to champion the notion of school leadership undertaken by individuals with no relevant qualification.

I disagree. I 'd say that this absolutely of a piece with a standard post-Thatcher neoliberal ideological take on education - that motivated individuals in a market can offer the same standard of education as a state school. Bear in mind that skill in pedagogy doesn't enter into market calculations, just the rather simplistic notion that if you "know" a subject, you can teach it.

The irony that schools themselves are specifically expected to effect individuals with qualifications, and are indeed judged by government on that metric is, of course, lost in the mists of rothbardian zeal.

Again, I suspect that market fundamentalism tells our zealots that they can attain the necessary standard of education through simple market participation, entirely missing any epistemelogical concerns.

 

[rioted]

I disagree. I 'd say that this absolutely of a piece with a standard post-Thatcher neoliberal ideological take on education - that motivated individuals in a market can offer the same standard of education as a state school. Bear in mind that skill in pedagogy doesn't enter into market calculations, just the rather simplistic notion that if you "know" a subject, you can teach it.
Again, I suspect that market fundamentalism tells our zealots that they can attain the necessary standard of education through simple market participation, entirely missing any epistemelogical concerns.

This supposes that the "standard of education as a state school" is something to be aspired to. IT IS NOT. And one of it's major problems is that it has policies formulated by people with no skills (or experience) of pedagogy - not just Gove, but all politicians.

 

[ViolentPanda]

This supposes that the "standard of education as a state school" is something to be aspired to. IT IS NOT.

Please expand and quantify.

And one of it's major problems is that it has policies formulated by people with no skills (or experience) of pedagogy - not just Gove, but all politicians.

Policy is mostly formulated outside of government, then presented to politicians for adoption. That's fine if your education policy is being formulated by think-tanks staffed with former teachers, but not so good when they're staffed by PPE grads who view education entirely through the lens of their own narrow experience of it.

 

[existentialist]

This supposes that the "standard of education as a state school" is something to be aspired to. IT IS NOT. And one of it's major problems is that it has policies formulated by people with no skills (or experience) of pedagogy - not just Gove, but all politicians.

But the "standard of education as a state school" should be something to be aspired to.

And I agree completely with your comment regarding the fact that policy on education is formulated by people with no practical knowledge (apart, maybe, from some misty-eyed reminiscences of life at whatever public school they were sent to) of education.

 

[likesfish]

i thoughtt he idea was to be better than the "bog standard comp" or why the fuck bother?
An unqualified headmaster with suitable experience in another field say an army major, university lecturer,
A Successful business person could probably do the job.

But free schools werent being run by the experianced but unqualified they were being run by the enthusastic but inexperianced at anything useful, because teachers are overskilled overpaid and what do they know about education
Turns out quite a bit actually

This is a less leathal version of the rail fuck up where they got rid of all those middle managers who did nothing to justify their inflated salarys only to discover its a railway system you do need people who know what the fuck they are doing otherwise it falls over and people die

 

[Favelado]

These select committees ask such impertinent questions.

 

[Gingerman]

 

[Combustible]

Well they do have similar views about the teaching of history (from 2:25).

 

[toggle]

I find it hard incredible she was given the job with no teaching quals etc. Utterly barmy.

not if you look at the perspective of the tories. one of the fundamental things behind their changes is that there is nothing that teachers do or say that has actual value. note the dismissive attitudes when it has been pointed out how unworkable his curriculum changes will be. the belief is that teachers as a group speak are acting to protect their own interests.

putting in people without qualifications, to run and teach in schools is supposed to proove that the claims made by teachers that they are hard working qualified professionals and might actually know a bit about teaching and kids, are bollocks. this can then be used to further undermine any pay, security and conditions they demand.

 

[Humberto]

Well they do have similar views about the teaching of history (from 2:25).

Now he's an amiable TV presenter who is watched by all sorts including former 'socialists' . A twat and a creepy arsewipe.

 

[Bakunin]

I would say that Michael Gove is a cunt.

Unfortunately he lacks the softness, warmth and depth.

 

[likesfish]

I think the torys Idea was all these highly experianced business "leaders" would leap at the chance of running a school.
Unfortunatly said business leaders are already doing something and dont fancy getting into teaching or running a school because its a ball of stress.
So you got the enthusastic but unskilled and the crooks

 

[spanglechick]

I think the torys Idea was all these highly experianced business "leaders" would leap at the chance of running a school.
Unfortunatly said business leaders are already doing something and dont fancy getting into teaching or running a school because its a ball of stress.
So you got the enthusastic but unskilled and the crooks

And those doing it for small-p political reasons. And party political reasons, come to that.

 

[DotCommunist]

And those doing it for small-p political reasons. And party political reasons, come to that.

also the religious wingnuts

 

[likesfish]

the school I clean at is an academy but the bloke behind it.
has made his pile of cash and is now into philanthropy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Aldridge
so an evil capitalist scumbag but not religious or fanatical ideologue.
as the headmaster at the time of going for academy status you need a new school building that is how it happens.
you can protest all you like but the government is only handing cash out for new academy's or free schools

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

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These select committees ask such impertinent questions.

Please tell me there is video footage of this.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Found it.



Not quite as funny as I'd hoped, being that he took it in good humour. Twat.