Education minister Michael Gove is still with us!!

With the United Kingdom falling foul of Murdochmania, the education minister Michael Gove is still trundling along. I suppose his reforms might work but they could take a long time to make the normal, bog-standard comprehensive any different. The move to
academy status and giving head teachers more independence might help but there are not enough inspirational head teachers to go round.

In an interesting article former Education minister Estelle Morris says there is no
big picture strategy just quite a few minor changes based on a narrow political focus.

It looks like Michael Gove is sinking without trace.

It looks like the UK Coalition Government's schools minister Michael Gove is sinking without trace. His "free schools" policy seems to be hitting the buffers while each major decision has to be followed by a U-turn. I have to accept that it is not easy stepping up from a job of newspaper columnist to running a major government department and certainly not easy dealing with the educational establishment in England. Apparently, Mr Gove is a good friend of Prime Minister David Cameron, but perhaps that will not save him from the axe.

I don't think the Department of Education expected to clamp down on the possible teaching of creationism by potential free schools and it is difficult to argue against the assertion from "Labour at the Chalkface" that Gove is incompetent.