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The Michael Gove File

"By making GCSEs more demanding, more fulfilling, and more stretching we can give our young people the broad, deep and balanced education which will equip them to win in the global race," Gove told the House of Commons.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/11/michael-gove-gcse-reforms
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I think we know the full title of that race, don't we? Further evidence, if any be needed, of that 'race' from today's IFS report:-

Britain's workers have suffered more financial pain since 2008 than in any five-year period of the modern age, according to research by a leading tax thinktank that shows employees have sacrificed pay to keep their jobs.
Describing this downturn as the longest and deepest slump in a century, the Institute for Fiscal Studies says workers have suffered unprecedented pay cuts of 6% in real terms over the last five years.
Historically, real wages rise by about 2% a year. This suggests that people are more than 15% worse off than they would have been if the pre-crisis wage trends had continued.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2013/jun/12/workers-deepest-cuts-real-wages-ifs
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:(
 
But the very rich have got much rich victory for the strivvers rather than you shirking oiks.

Future gove policys

SAS sent in to restore order in schools
All teaching to be done in latin
Heads encouraged to use capital punishment

:( it used to be that only British home secetarys went mad with power but apprantly the disease is spreading :(
 
They seem to have missed something here.

When I was at school, we still had GCEs, which were very obviously academically oriented. But we also had CSEs, which were aimed at those who were not quite as academically able, and provided a qualification route that was more suited to the educational pathways they were more likely to follow: onward training at technical colleges, apprenticeships, or work-based training.

Then we got GCSEs, which rolled the two in together. I didn't much like the idea, but CSEs did have an image problem, so perhaps it was an appropriate step.

I do think that the level of government interference on GCSEs has devalued the qualification - grade inflation seems to be accepted as real, and my - albeit cursory - experience leads me to wonder whether we are failing, at the least, our higher achievers.

But now, we're winding the clock back. Quite apart from Gove's fetishism over rote learning and classical literature, which I think is swinging the pendulum far too far the other way, I wonder what will happen to the pupils who would have been doing CSEs who are presumably now going to get lumped in with the Shakespeare and poetry crowd, and will either hate the idea before it starts, or will learn to hate it as they realise that they're scrabbling around in the lower reaches of a curriculum that has no relevance to them.

Some will benefit, and gain something that they might not otherwise have encountered, but lots more will fall by the wayside, and become disaffected and disengaged.
 
brogdale said:
Which pretty much sounds like a model of the society into which Gove wants these kids to enter.
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And that's why I think he's a cunt. Because I cannot believe that he doesn't realise, or hasn't been told countless times, that this will be the effect of these changes.
 
existentialist said:
And that's why I think he's a cunt. Because I cannot believe that he doesn't realise, or hasn't been told countless times, that this will be the effect of these changes.
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Agreed.

More evidence of that here.

Hencke saying it like it is. Gove's ideologically fundamentalist 'localism' coming before the safety of children.:mad:

Michael Gove: A Paedophile’s Unwitting Friend?

... he has no intention of intervening to ensure that when children are sexually abused in the nation’s state funded and private schools that the incident should be reported....he has written to Cheryl Gillan, the ex-minister and Tory MP for nearby Chesham and Amersham, saying that he is against mandatory reporting of allegations to the specific local officer because it could ” swamp ” officialdom ” with every incident reported”. He says : ” schools should be trusted to make their own professional judgement ” to report the matter.

I am sure that Michael Gove is not a supporter of paedophilia nor am I accusing or even inferring in the headline that he is remotely sympathetic to child abusers. But unwittingly by not doing so he is giving aid and comfort to those who want this hushed up. My accusation against Gove is more dereliction of duty as secretary of state for education in not providing the protection of the law for children who are sexually abused. I know from other sources that the Metropolitan Police Paedophile Unit take a similar view.
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where to said:
That is an astonishing position for a politician to take in 2013, morally and pragmatically.
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Agreed, but look at the thread title!

This is no bog-standard, ordinary politician; we're talking about the iconoclast, the maverick, the brave crusader of the neo-liberal revolution. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the next Leader of the opposition.
 
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2013/jun/15/twigg-gove-unqualified-teachers-sack

More than 5,000 untrained teachers who have been allowed to work in academies and free schools under Michael Gove's education reforms will be sacked if Labour wins the next election, unless they gain a formal qualification within two years.
The proposal is one of several to be announced by the shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg...
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Yep, all fine and dandy...in fact, a policy idea that actually makes sense...but it takes 3 years to draw this sort of response?:facepalm:
 
existentialist said:
I do think that the level of government interference on GCSEs has devalued the qualification - grade inflation seems to be accepted as real, and my - albeit cursory - experience leads me to wonder whether we are failing, at the least, our higher achievers.
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Surely 'Grade Inflation' is a result of an assessment system that looks at performance over time in equal weight to an exam (i.e. 50% coursework, 50% exam work) and tests the student on a criterion rather than normative system... So if you're right, you're right, not right based on some arbitrary grade curve based on number of entrants to the exam that year...

Reverting back to a 10% coursework, 90% exam system merely places the advantage to those that can cram information in the weeks leading up to the final exam. It's a terrible indicator of performance as it merely provides a snapshot of your performance on the day as opposed to how well you actually understand the subject... :confused:

E2A:

Those students that are the best and most gifted sit a higher tier of paper anyway, if we want to further cement that then introduce a higher tier paper that is normative rather than criterion based to be sat as part of the exam timetable... That way the old-school normative bods can have their cake and eat it... But then again we'd be back to the days of GCE/CSE papers again innit...
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/jun/19/free-school-fails-ofsted-gove

One of the first free schools to open has been placed on special measures and given an inadequate rating by Ofsted inspectors, in an untimely blow to the government's flagship education policy.

Only days after Labour announced it would end the opening of free schools, curtailing a policy aggressively promoted by the education secretary, Michael Gove, Ofsted inspectors have published the highly critical report into the Discovery Free School, in Crawley, West Sussex, which opened in September 2011.

Inspectors were severe on the primary school's leadership, saying its governors failed to grasp the school's "serious shortcomings", while school leaders "believe the school is far better than it is".

The inspection team gave the school the lowest grade, of "inadequate", in three of four categories, for pupil achievement, quality of teaching, leadership and management. "Too many pupils are in danger of leaving the school without being able to read and write properly," inspectors concluded. "Unless this is put right quickly, pupils are unlikely to flourish in their secondary schools and future lives."
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Gove's sacrificial children to appease the market
 
http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/british-islands-consider-adopting-scottish-highers-1-2991028

THE islands of Guernsey, Jersey and the Isle of Man are considering adopting Scottish Highers in favour of A levels amid concerns over English educational reform, it has emerged.

The three crown dependencies, which are autonomous from the UK but traditionally follow the English curriculum, are understood to be seeking alternatives to the current system due to fears the Westminster reforms being led by Michael Gove will damage young people’s prospects.
Guernsey’s education leader has met with Scottish Government officials as concerns grow that English plans for end-of-year exams at 16 and 18 will put some pupils at a disadvantage.
Despite criticism in Scotland, schools in England and as far afield as Romania have considered adopting Curriculum for Excellence, which was introduced in 2010.
The Scottish system, which encourages through learning between the ages of 3 and 18, is increasingly at odds with reforms in England, which are seeking to put more emphasis on testing.
A Scottish Government spokeswoman said: “We have had very productive discussions with colleagues in Guernsey and beyond about how, under Curriculum for Excellence, we have focussed on giving pupils the knowledge, experience and skills to be successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors.
“We share the view that having a qualification system which supports deeper learning and skills development is the best approach. A number of international educational commentators have welcomed the opportunities which the Scottish system offers to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty first century, whether their next step is into college, university or employment. We will continue to share our experience with our counterparts in Guernsey and beyond who see our approach as a positive model to follow.”
A spokeswoman for Westminster’s Department of Education said: “Our reforms will enhance A levels and GCSEs to better prepare students for higher education.
“Linear exams will end an over-reliance on resits so all pupils develop a real understanding of the subject.”
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Theres a piece in the daily mail claiming gove is declaring war on using the word gay as an insult?

Actually does something good thats rather suprising.
 
nagapie said:
Apparently Gove has just lost the battle to take climate change off the Geography syllabus. What an absolute nutjob.
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I've struggled to understand why right wingers seek to deny climate change and the only explanation I can think of is that they can't hack the idea that rampant overconsumption has consequences. So it must be a lefty plot to stop all fun and machinery.
 
Its home secetary disease obviously he,s been bitten and its infectious.
Causes you to come out with more and more Authortarian ideas that are a bit random and dont even make sense.
Usually it only becomes this virulent just before and election where the poor sod is put out of his misery but with two years to go we can look forward to grove calling in air strikes on underperfroming schools " it was neccessary to destroy the school to save it" and calling for drone strikes on teaching union leaders before he,s sectioned :(
 
DotCommunist said:
I've struggled to understand why right wingers seek to deny climate change and the only explanation I can think of is that they can't hack the idea that rampant overconsumption has consequences. So it must be a lefty plot to stop all fun and machinery.
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I think it is more serious than that. Kids soak up ideas like blotting paper, what he and his ilk seek to do is remove the idea of the consequences of our actions on the planet from the educational narrative; all they wish is that as adults we will all be good little consumers with little or no idea of consequences.
 
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