1 Mar 2013

LABOUR leaders are “outraged” at a Government minister’s “insult” that brands local schools as having a lack of ambition.

Michael Gove has sparked anger after he said you can walk into an East Durham school and “smell the sense of defeatism”.

20 Feb 2013

Information commissioner clashes with Gove over public’s right to know details of groups who applied to join free schools programme.

18 Feb 2013

I hope that you might consider writing about the sham
consultation process happening where schools undergoing forced
academisation are handed over to the charitable wing of big …

10 Feb 2013

Sign the new petition to get rid of Gove.
His u-turn on the Ebacc has shown him to be weak but the revealing of his plans to turn the running of academies over to for-profit operators shows the damage he still intends to cause. Sign the petition.

10 Feb 2013

From The Independent
The full extent of Michael Gove’s plans to revolutionise education are revealed today in a secret memo showing he is considering outright privatisation of academies and free schools. All academies and free schools in England, which are the Education Secretary’s personal obsession, would be free to become profit-making for the first time, and be entirely decoupled from Whitehall control.