The Michael Gove File

[Awesome Wells]

How is a 9-10 schoolday ever going to work? Homework clubs - wouldn't they just the same as regular classes?

If the kids attend an extra 3 hours (which means they will have no time for after school independent activities) then how much longer will teaching staff have to work?

And all this so we can compete with China?

 

[trashpony]

But even the right wing/ establishment papers seem to have serious reservations. Today's times:

And Rachel Sylvester, who is pretty pro Gove usually, is on the front page of the comment section saying he has alienated his own supporters as well as the 'Blob'

Matthew Parris said he counts him as a friend but he thinks he's lost his marbles. I do hope that his megalomania has become so apparent that he has to be taken out. I'm sure Cameron wouldn't hesitate to stab him in the back if he becomes a nuisance

 

[Dogsauce]

Whilst he's a liability to the government he's better where he is, though that's no consolation to teachers. Imagine the damage they'd be doing with someone competant in the job.

I'm worried that as the election approaches and this lot realise they're on for a hiding that they'll get even more slash and burn - you've got the hastily privatised railway system (and associated bodycount) as the legacy of the last time that happened.

 

[nino_savatte]

Has there ever been an education secretary who has generated so much antipathy with teachers as Gove? It's going to take years to undo the damage this arrogant fuckwad has done -not only to the education system itself but also the teaching profession at large.

Kenneth Baker came close but Gove's raced ahead of him.

Michael Gove: more of a busybody than an educationalist. He's the government's equivalent of Coronation Street's Norris Cole.

 

[likesfish]

This stuff isnt actually making it into policy is it?
Is it just sound bites rhat are being thrown out rather randomly
Bit like pickles

 

[Manter]

Matthew Parris said he counts him as a friend but he thinks he's lost his marbles. I do hope that his megalomania has become so apparent that he has to be taken out. I'm sure Cameron wouldn't hesitate to stab him in the back if he becomes a nuisance

I've seen quite a few pundits say he is charming IRL. And polite. Committed etc. he's just an idiot sadly...

 

[neonwilderness]

https://vine.co/v/Mz3nAKXEtmt

 

[brogdale]

https://vine.co/v/Mz3nAKXEtmt

hoping it was dog shit.

 

[Nylock]

https://vine.co/v/Mz3nAKXEtmt

That never gets old

 

[not-bono-ever]

http://www.parentdish.co.uk/2014/02/05/michael-gove-pincushion-on-sale-for-25-pounds/

 

[J Ed]

http://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/feb/07/al-madinah-free-school-secondary finally. If it were a comp it would have been shut over a year ago.

 

[fractionMan]

We did that in 2012, work to rule.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-20696660



He obviously didn't get 'work to rule'.

not enough facepalms.

 

[Dr Jon]

Gove, leave those teachers alone

 

[frogwoman]

Apparently physical activity such as running round a playing field should be used as a punishment.

er wasn't it the tories who sold many playing fields off?

 

[DotCommunist]

Cos nobody uses laps of the field in PE as a punishment already

personally thats one of the many reasons I boycotted PE for yr 9-11

 

[Balbi]

Gove suggested removing DfE guidelines on teacher working hours and school year length, taking/reducing PPA and allowing more teachers to cover each other.

School Teacher's Review Board told him to fuck off and didn't accept any proposals

 

[brogdale]

Gove suggested removing DfE guidelines on teacher working hours and school year length, taking/reducing PPA and allowing more teachers to cover each other.

School Teacher's Review Board told him to fuck off and didn't accept any proposals

Yeah, in the context of Gove's relentless assault on teachers' P&C, this does represent a pause in the revolution...but, but...it is a measure of how thorough the war against organised teachers has been that within this (temporary?) set-back for Gove he has actually destroyed, in one fell swoop, one of the key achievements of the national agreement:-

Mr Gove did win a concession from the STRB in convincing them they should remove from the contract a list of 21 specific tasks teachers should not do - such as photocopying, putting up displays and exam invigilating. It was put in by Labour just over a decade ago in an attempt to head off industrial action over workload.

This decision, though, angered UNISON, the union which represents classroom assistants, which warned it will lead to job cuts amongst support staff.

“Asking teachers to do bulk photocopying and chasing pupils and parents for money is a complete waste of teachers’ time,” said Jon Richards, UNISON’s national secretary for education. “The government has tried to compare teachers with doctors, a false comparison that fails to recognise doctors’ have powerful codes of practice.

“You would not expect doctors to collect money off patients for prescriptions.”

...and those of you paying your NUT/NAS subs...notice who was pointing this out.

In the same report... more of the trajectory towards rewards for compliant, feudal, autocratic and bullying management...

The report also paved the way for higher pay for headteachers - giving governors more powers to offer performance related pay and higher salaries for those who take on extra responsibilities, such as becoming executive head for a group or federation of schools.

A spokeswoman for the Department for Education said: “The STRB has made a persuasive case for change to leadership pay.

“These reforms are designed to ensure the most talented leaders are attracted to the teaching profession and are properly rewarded for taking on challenging schools.”

 

[J Ed]

http://www.secularism.org.uk/news/2...rimination-against-teachers-in-muslim-schools

The National Secular Society has warned that the proliferation of religious schools could be opening the door to gender discrimination in the employment of teachers.

The warning follows the discovery of a job advertisement for a Male Science Teacher placed by Capita Education Resourcing on behalf of an Islamic boys' school in Leicester. The advert was passed on to the NSS by a qualified female science teacher looking for work in the Leicester area.

In a letter to Maria Miller MP, Minister for Women and Equalities, the National Secular Society has called on the Government to publish guidance that makes clear to schools that unlawful gender discrimination must not be accommodated within the education system.

Capita has argued that that the discrimination is permissible under exceptions to the Equality Act that permit religious organisations to discriminate on grounds of gender and sexual orientation if a 'genuine occupation requirement' can be established, and where an employer is seeking to comply with the doctrines of a religion or the strongly held convictions of a significant number of its followers

 

[brogdale]

So Michael & Sarah got their first choice yesterday....

 

[likesfish]

He came out with the usual bollocks about wanting more kids in the cadet forces thats usually the terminal stage of madness

 

[J Ed]

The future of education UK

 

[treelover]

'Islamic takeover plot' in Birmingham schools investigated
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-26482599

Gove is going to have to deal with a major crisis very soon if the above is true, I wonder how he will respond?

 

[brogdale]

Gove is going to have to deal with a major crisis very soon if the above is true, I wonder how he will respond?

If he does, he'll be responding to a crisis originating from Blair's abject decision to facilitate and encourage state-funded schools with exclusive admission policies predicated upon parents' adherence to super-natural belief systems. Along with the ideological mania for destroying the accountability of elected authorities oversight of state schools, NL are almost completely to blame for this chaos that Gove is presently presiding over.

 

[likesfish]

Tbf all the parties were rah rah rah.
Useless fat middle management grr nasty council run education departments

Like railtrack before apprantly the fat uneeded middle mangement stop the whole thing falling over and exploding in flames

 

[cesare]

Michael Gove decides to reach all children himself

Subtle hack stays on DoE website for a month before the fuckers notice it and remove it

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...department-for-education-website-9174645.html

 

[Dogsauce]

Something about that Birmingham letter doesn't ring true, it sounds like the sort of conspiracy a right-wing loonspud would invent. Wouldn't be entirely surprised if it turns out to be a hoax.

 

[stavros]

Gove is going to have to deal with a major crisis very soon if the above is true, I wonder how he will respond?

Badly no doubt, with punishment of being put on the naughty seat again;

 

[brogdale]

Badly no doubt, with punishment of being put on the naughty seat again;

That's not the naughty seat, but the chair in the cavernous classroom from which Gove teaches 14 million children.

 

[J Ed]

I always defended Michael Gove. Then I met him http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/9158241/the-disturbing-certainty-of-michael-gove/

 

[frogwoman]

He was, from the very start, monumentally polite, chuckly and benign. We had met before on Question Time and he remembered it. He had read my book The House of Silk. We chatted about middle-age foibles as I searched for my glasses. Finally, I launched into a fairly general question just to get things going. ‘What is the point of education?’ This got a smile and a frown and then he began: ‘There is a phrase that I’ve used…’