The Michael Gove File

[Mr.Bishie]

^^ Such a shame he didn't break his scrawny fucking neck!

 

[Balbi]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/dec/13/fall-primary-schools-targets

Standard academies, of which there were 255, did the best of any primary type in the proportion of pupils hitting the required level for English and maths, at 86.1%, up more than five percentage points from last year. The parallel figure for everyday community schools is 79.3%, though their year-on-year improvement was slightly greater. The academies also do best in the proportion of pupils hitting the higher, level five, standard for English and maths.

The 147 sponsored academies lagged on 70.3%, but with a bigger annual improvement of almost nine percentage points.

Free schools, another major coalition education policy, sit at the bottom of the table with just over 70% of pupils hitting the necessary standards, but from a tiny sample size of just 44.

Chucking money at Academies using LEA money from community schools means they improve by less than budget cut schools.

Private education via the backdoor doesn't produce results shocker.

Free schools actually a bit dire shocker.

The threat for malingering schools is forcible conversion to academy status, a programme moving quickly despite the still relatively small numbers compared with the secondary sector

MALINGERING SCHOOLS? FUCK OFF GUARDIAN. FUCK THE FUCK OFF.

 

[chilango]

Idiot.

Sowing the seeds of the destruction of the society/culture he thinks he's defending.

 

[ViolentPanda]

my personal reasoning as to why this is true, is: with other tory cunts there's an element of cynicism and game-playing. but to gove this is a personal philosophy. he really believes in this stuff, and that's much more scary.

Yep, same with Iain Duncan Shit. Scary fanatic pair of egotistic cunts.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Idiot.

Sowing the seeds of the destruction of the society/culture he thinks he's defending.

Yes, but his idiocy serves a useful purpose for his colleagues and their paymasters.

 

[chilango]

Yes, but his idiocy serves a useful purpose for his colleagues and their paymasters.

Short term.

Grab as much cash as possible, hole up somewhere safe for retirement and don't live to see the whole thing crash down over the next couple of decades.

Slash n burn capitalism.

 

[Balbi]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jan/15/teachers-pay-performance-michael-gove

Gove has now written to Dame Patricia Hodgson, the chair of the STRB, to confirm the change, which will affect schools in England and Wales.
He wrote: "I am clear that these changes will give schools greater freedom to develop pay policies that are tailored to their school's needs and circumstances and to reward their teachers in line with their performance." There was, he added, "further work to be done" in deciding the best way to implement the recommendations.
The new system will end teachers' automatic progression to new national pay points according to length of service, linking it instead to annual appraisals, as happens already with some senior staff. While the wider pay bands will be maintained as a general reference, the set points between them will be abolished, with heads given the power to choose what within the scale a teacher is paid. Higher pay bands for London and surrounding areas will be kept in place.

I'm going to be able, as a well qualified and good teacher with a four year track record of quality improvement, to go and demand more than my scale point increase if I move to a school with a lot of trouble recruiting. Divisive, mercenary making manouver.

 

[spanglechick]

Mmm. I think the opposite will happen. Older, skilled, experienced teachers will face a pay freeze at the bottom of each scale. Your current employer won't gove you a raise and recruiting will favour cheap kids that won't ever need paying more.

 

[brogdale]

Mmm. I think the opposite will happen. Older, skilled, experienced teachers will face a pay freeze at the bottom of each scale. Your current employer won't gove you a raise and recruiting will favour cheap kids that won't ever need paying more.

I think that's generally right, though this further entrenchment of the bullying HT's charter will produce benefits for the cohorts of arse-lickers and box-tickers that reinforce the narcissistic psychopathy of some of the more martinet 'senior managers'. Just more fuedalism that will erode standards of learning.

 

[Balbi]

Mmm. I think the opposite will happen. Older, skilled, experienced teachers will face a pay freeze at the bottom of each scale. Your current employer won't gove you a raise and recruiting will favour cheap kids that won't ever need paying more.

Male/female pay inequality down in primary

 

[ViolentPanda]

Mmm. I think the opposite will happen. Older, skilled, experienced teachers will face a pay freeze at the bottom of each scale. Your current employer won't gove you a raise and recruiting will favour cheap kids that won't ever need paying more.

Freudian slip.

 

[Balbi]

Rumours that the Observer has a Gove toppling story running tomorrow.

 

[8115]

Rumours that the Observer has a Gove toppling story running tomorrow.

I hope so, but given his performance up to now, I literally can't imagine what he would have to do to be toppled. I'll bet you a fiver he's still in his job at christmas.

 

[Balbi]

As a teacher, I won't take that bet as I am too busy shouting "PLEASEDEARGODPLEASEDEARGOD" and crossing myself.

 

[manny-p]

Rumours that the Observer has a Gove toppling story running tomorrow.

Where did you here these rumours mate?

 

[Belushi]

The Guardian site has this story http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/02/gove-advisers-claims-smear-tactics

 

[Balbi]

Where did you here these rumours mate?

Fleetwood Mac.

Hype though, story's barely a ripple raiser.

 

[Libertad]

edit: Link as posted above.

 

[8115]

That's not a Gove-toppling story.

 

[Miss-Shelf]

slightly off the imminent topic but it gives a flavour of the DfE
when the DfE site took over the former DCSF it, of course, rebranded the site

but not content with just rebranding the DCSF site with it's rainbow logos it actually depicted the rainbow being dismantled - am I alone in finding that weird?

 

[Miss-Shelf]

That's not a Gove-toppling story.

unfortunately not

 

[manny-p]

slightly off the imminent topic but it gives a flavour of the DfE
when the DfE site took over the former DCSF it, of course, rebranded the site

but not content with just rebranding the DCSF site with it's rainbow logos it actually depicted the rainbow being dismantled - am I alone in finding that weird?
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Yeah odd. A gay teacher purge expected?

 

[redsquirrel]

That's not a Gove-toppling story.

Nope but what can you expect from the soggy piece of shit the Observer. I mean it makes the Guardian look radical.

 

[Sasaferrato]

my personal reasoning as to why this is true, is: with other tory cunts there's an element of cynicism and game-playing. but to gove this is a personal philosophy. he really believes in this stuff, and that's much more scary.

You mean like vile shits like Crosland, who despite having a very privileged education, destroyed the grammar school system, to the huge detriment of working class children?

 

[elbows]

 

[weltweit]

Bloody hell, I have just been trying to get my head around the Bacc for my year 9 er ...

 

[Blagsta]

influenced by Gramsci apparently

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education...inspirations-jade-goody?mobile-redirect=false

 

[spanglechick]

Well, well, well... too late for the damage he's done to next year's cohort, mind - where no very bright kids were allowed to take Arts subjects at my school... but, still, a fail for Gove is a win for education. Let us celebrate. ​

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[spanglechick]

sorry for the odd font. c&p'd from fb.

 

[SLK]

The English Baccalaureate still exists though - its just a measure of 6 academic GCSEs that students will continue to be encouraged to do because the schools will be public ally measured on them.

The only thing that won't change is that these subjects will still be GCSEs and not called 'EBCs' (which were going to be examined by one exam board in each subject). He's saying he's still going to make that collection of GCSEs even more academic in content.