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The Michael Gove File

I bought the 'I' once cos its pennies and it was like reading a liberalish version of the Metro. True to form, two ECO DISASTER THAT ARE YOUR FAULT stories dominated
 
Gingerman said:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/04/michael-gove-blackadder_n_4541086.html
He really is an odious cunt....proving once again that the best part of him dribbled down his old man's leg
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Well the German government were cunts in the first world war, doesn't mean it was anything other than a pointless waste of life for both sides and ironically it was the first world war that forced them to think of providing something resembling the welfare state in the first place.
 
Ugh!

Because Gove has decreed that BTEC's are now too easy, they've re-written them into a format, that is pretty much impossible to teach and goes against the basic principles of education. i've just had a 90 minute presentation about them.

They've also said that people must be in education until they're 18, but are cutting funding for 18 year olds by 17.5%

The incompetence literally astounds me.
 
sim667 said:
Ugh!

Because Gove has decreed that BTEC's are now too easy, they've re-written them into a format, that is pretty much impossible to teach and goes against the basic principles of education. i've just had a 90 minute presentation about them.

They've also said that people must be in education until they're 18, but are cutting funding for 18 year olds by 17.5%

The incompetence literally astounds me.
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They're talking about three day weeks for post 16 YOs in special schools and trying to justify it as being "the same hours a 16 YO in mainstream sixth form gets" but not allowing for the fact all the free periods etc would still be covered in the school setting. So parents of kids with special needs might suddenly find they can only be available for three days of work, if that.
 
_angel_ said:
They're talking about three day weeks for post 16 YOs in special schools and trying to justify it as being "the same hours a 16 YO in mainstream sixth form gets" but not allowing for the fact all the free periods etc would still be covered in the school setting. So parents of kids with special needs might suddenly find they can only be available for three days of work, if that.
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Well they're basing that on reasoning that there's much smaller groups in special schools, whilst not considering at all why the learner may need to attend a special school in the first place.

BTEC wise, they're now saying that learners will be examined at the end, you can't give them assignments covering multiple outcomes - so theoretically where as they had to undertake one task where they could reach distinction if it was good enough, they now have to undertake one task for a pass, one slightly more complicated task for a merit, and the same task in a more complicated way for distinction, so for our fashion students, essentially they'd have to cut and sew a dress for a pass, cut and sew a pleated dress for a merit and then say a wrap dress for a distinction..... where as previously the could have just made a wrap dress and get a distinction. Essentially they're tripling the work load for every unit.

You have to give them 2 levels of feedback, firstly formative feedback where you can't tell them what grade boundary they're working toward, but you can tell them what they need to do to improve, and formative assessment were you can't tell them what they need to do to improve, but you can tell them a grade. You can only do the summative assessment once for a project, and after the formative assessment it can only be resubmitted once.

Oh yeah and you'll now be able to give students on level 2 a level 1 if they under achieve, which means colleges for cost saving will expect 40 students in a level 2 class, and then assume 50% will only achieve level 1...... This will be a cost saving exercise so they dont have to run seperate level 1 courses and pay a second teacher. :rolleyes:
 
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wife of Gove giving tips on DWP site :facepalm:
Michael Gove's wife, journalist Sarah Vine, is involved with Get the Gloss, which sells £230 face cream among other products. Under a post telling jobseekers how to "dress for success", expert Judy Johnson from the "award winning beauty & health website" is quoted as saying: "Before I get stuck in on attire – my first tip would be make sure your eyes look perky so you don't look all sleepy - people will hire you more if you look awake! (a good night's sleep usually helps or a good under eye concealer). Don't worry – you don't have to spend a lot of money or search through fashion magazines to figure out what to wear to your interview – and the good news is – once you have that one interview outfit, you can re-cycle it for every other interview!" Facebook commenters criticised the apparent conflict of interest in Gove's wife's company being promoted on a government website, with one saying: "This company is owned by Michael Goves wife. How come MP's are permitted to advertise there spouses business via govt channels?" Gove's spokesman told the Mirror that the education secretary and his wife knew nothing about the link until contacted by the paper
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http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jan/08/government-facebook-gaffe-michael-gove-wife-sarah-vine
 
Orang Utan said:
'Sir' Tony Robinson. Isn't he supposed to be a socialist or summat? How can anyone except a bauble and claim to be even vaguely left wing?
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the beeb article lent heavily on him being a paid up labourite and campaigner, in order to show balance of course and not at all to smear anyone questioning Gove as some sort of red terror
 
sim667 said:
Well they're basing that on reasoning that there's much smaller groups in special schools, whilst not considering at all why the learner may need to attend a special school in the first place.

BTEC wise, they're now saying that learners will be examined at the end, you can't give them assignments covering multiple outcomes - so theoretically where as they had to undertake one task where they could reach distinction if it was good enough, they now have to undertake one task for a pass, one slightly more complicated task for a merit, and the same task in a more complicated way for distinction, so for our fashion students, essentially they'd have to cut and sew a dress for a pass, cut and sew a pleated dress for a merit and then say a wrap dress for a distinction..... where as previously the could have just made a wrap dress and get a distinction. Essentially they're tripling the work load for every unit.

You have to give them 2 levels of feedback, firstly formative feedback where you can't tell them what grade boundary they're working toward, but you can tell them what they need to do to improve, and formative assessment were you can't tell them what they need to do to improve, but you can tell them a grade. You can only do the summative assessment once for a project, and after the formative assessment it can only be resubmitted once.

Oh yeah and you'll now be able to give students on level 2 a level 1 if they under achieve, which means colleges for cost saving will expect 40 students in a level 2 class, and then assume 50% will only achieve level 1...... This will be a cost saving exercise so they dont have to run seperate level 1 courses and pay a second teacher. :rolleyes:
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Management here tried to impose new spec lvl 2 on us one week before the start of this academic year. We told them to get to fuck and we'd introduce it next year when we actually had some lead-in time to prep the course. Incompetent/lazy/stupid management seems to be endemic in this fucking country and getting worse as time goes by! :mad:
 
Nylock said:
Management here tried to impose new spec lvl 2 on us one week before the start of this academic year. We told them to get to fuck and we'd introduce it next year when we actually had some lead-in time to prep the course. Incompetent/lazy/stupid management seems to be endemic in this fucking country and getting worse as time goes by! :mad:
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Im with you 100% on that.

Or management once again proved the culture of lying by SMT earler.
 
It's all going so terribly badly; who could have seen this coming?

Flagship academy principal arrested over suspected fraud



The founder of the Kings Science Academy in Bradford, Sajid Raza, is arrested and bailed by police investigating suspected fraud offences. The academy was one of the country's first free schools.

Detective Superintendent Lisa Griffin of West Yorkshire Police said in a statement that a 41-year-old man, who she did not name, had been arrested as part of an "ongoing investigation into matters at Kings Science Academy in Bradford."

Mr Raza set up the school in 2011, and was on hand to show Prime Minister David Cameron round when he visited in March 2012.

During that visit Mr Cameron praised the school and, in a hand-written note added to a thank you letter, he wrote:


"I was really impressed and have told Michael Gove about your work. Keep it up!"
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.....and....and it gets even better....

The role of Mr Alan Lewis was also raised by Mr Ward and Labour MP Kevin Brennan.

Mr Lewis, who is a vice chairman of the Conservative Party, has been the executive patron of the Kings Science Academy since it was founded.


The school is built on land he owns, and the education secretary told MPs that "Mr Lewis is receiving for the property an appropriately guaranteed market rent - less than he was receiving for it beforehand."
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Gove you utter wanker.
 
The Al-Madinah Free School was financially corrupt too, alongside the enforcement of hijabs on female teachers, sex segregation and poor educational standards.

They are stealing from children.
 
Standard fare, I'm afraid....

Revealed: taxpayer-funded academies paying millions to private firms
Calls for Department for Education scrutiny over firms linked to directors paid millions for consultancy and other services

Taxpayer-funded academy chains have paid millions of pounds into the private businesses of directors, trustees and their relatives, documents obtained from freedom of information requests show.

The payments have been made for a wide range of services including consultancy fees, curriculums, IT advice and equipment, travel, expenses and legal services by at least nine academy chains.

Critics fear that the Department for Education (DfE) is not closely monitoring the circulation of public money from academies to private firms.

While defending their use of public money, one trustee of an academy chain has called for increased scrutiny of their spending. Another said a director had resigned from the trust because of fears over a conflict of interest.

There is no implication that the chains or their directors and trustees have broken any rules, and all insisted that they had been properly audited.
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Is the phrase 'raping the future' too strong?

This man is singularly the most arrogant creature. There's no stopping this monster. What future is there when schools have to pay lawyers in case the corporations they are beholden to threaten to sue them because Mrs Jones said something 'scandalous' while teaching history.

Apologies for the use of the word rape.
 
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