The Michael Gove File

[Nylock]

Well, we ended the year with another tranche of staff cuts... Across our three campuses:

3 library staff down to 1 (campus 1), 1 library made electronic only & all library staff made redundant (campus 2), Staff cut in library at campus 3
All admissions amalgamated to campus 1 with the admissions team as a whole cut by 75%
Significant admin office staff cuts (can't remember the figures atm)
No replacement of teaching staff facing retirement, part-time tutors to infill in compatible subject areas to make up shortfalls in teaching staff on some programmes.
There have been a bunch of lay-offs and redundancies over this academic year as well, with more cuts to come next year as well.

Nice one Gove, you irredeemable abject cunt.

 

[Orang Utan]

He's gone!

 

[killer b]

i had the pleasure of giving the good news to a couple of ex-teachers on my way to work. The joy in their faces will keep me smiling all day.

 

[Orang Utan]

He's wrecked it all though. It's too late.

 

[J Ed]

Morgan is an ex-corporate lawyer in mergers and acquisitions, the perfect person to oversee the privatisation of education.

 

[nino_savatte]

Hallelujah! So where is Pob off to now?

 

[Libertad]

Hallelujah! So where is Pob off to now?

Chief whip.

 

[nino_savatte]

Chief whip.

Who gets the education portfolio? McVey? I wouldn't be surprised if Cameron chose someone that useless to fill Gove's seat.

 

[Libertad]

Nicky Morgan.

 

[killer b]

He's wrecked it all though. It's too late.

certainly. I see this as a personal blow to Gove though rather than a victory for education. As such, its still worth celebrating.

 

[nino_savatte]

Nicky Morgan.

 

[Balbi]

 

[fishfinger]

Keep posting it, and I'll keep liking it!

 

[teqniq]

 

[StoneRoad]

Just told my OH, an ear to ear grin results ...............

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Morgan seems to be a religious loon.

 

[teqniq]

Out of the frying-pan...

 

[butchersapron]

Quick point on education secs - in the last 70 years there have been 31 of them. 8 (25%) of them did not go to private schools. Of those 70 years, 50 (72%) of them had privately educated Secretaries. The new one appointed today is both privately educated and Oxbridge.

 

[agricola]

Have we had this yet? (from twitter)

 

[ska invita]

will this make any difference to anything? genuine question

 

[teqniq]

agricola

 

[fishfinger]

Quick point on education secs - in the last 70 years there have been 22 of them. 6 (25%) of them did not go to private schools. Of those 70 years, 50 (72%) of them had privately educated Secretaries. The new one appointed today is both privately educated and Oxbridge.

If there's been 22, then I think you meant 15, not 50 were privately educated.

 

[butchersapron]

If there's been 22, then I think you meant 15, not 50 were privately educated.

Sorry, the first figure was was 8/31. The 6/22 was back to 1964 - corrected now. And you've misread what the 50 referred to - that's years. 50 years out of 70.

 

[fishfinger]

Sorry, the first figure was was 8/31. The 6/22 was back to 1964 - corrected now. And you've misread what the 50 referred to - that's years. 50 years out of 70.

Oops

 

[Balbi]

Have we had this yet? (from twitter)

I have a printed version on my cupboard door at work.

 

[Balbi]

THIS FILE IS NOW CLOSED

 

[existentialist]

THIS FILE IS NOW CLOSED

The hell it is!

Gove as the main PR man is going to be a rich vein of unintentional humour...

 

[sim667]

will this make any difference to anything? genuine question

No.

Everything thats been done to the education system has been ideologically biased to create a tiered education system to profiteer from the state education system, whilst dampening the aspirations of lecturers and learners involved.

The way they want education to work is to have factory farming teaching for the masses and free range happy farming for those who's parents can pay for it.

Nicky Morgan will make it worse, judging by her background and the fact that she's adverse to equality and diversity as a whole.

 

[Orang Utan]

This might as well be the thread to ask this, but do any of you education experts know if it is possible for an academy to change into a community school or 'revert' to LA control in some way? This is purely an academic question of course.

 

[Balbi]

This might as well be the thread to ask this, but do any of you education experts know if it is possible for an academy to change into a community school or 'revert' to LA control in some way? This is purely an academic question of course.

I think a few were returned to LA if the sponsor fucks up money wise