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= Key Development Monday 17th June
13:54 Michael Gove: When is a free school not a free school? When Stephen Twigg is trying to appease the teaching unions Press Release

13:54| Press Release
In response to Stephen Twigg’s speech on schools policy today, Education Secretary Michael Gove said: ‘Labour’s policy on free schools is so tortured they should send in the UN to end the suffering. On the one hand Stephen Twigg sa... Continue to article
= Key Development Friday 14th June
15:15 In Brief Events

15:15 | Events | PoliticsHome
Energy secretary Ed Davey and local government minister Don Foster speak at the Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors local government dinner in Manchester Business secretary Vince Cable speaks at a Trades Union Congress event on s... Continue to article
= Key Development Thursday 13th June
09:31 Clegg backs Gove GCSE reforms PoliticsHome News

Clegg backs Gove GCSE reforms
Nick Clegg has backed Michael Gove’s most recent plans for reforming the GCSE exam. The Lib Dem leader had opposed the Education Secretary’s original proposal to split the exam into two tiers, but said he was “comfortable” with the lates... Continue to article
= Key Development Tuesday 11th June
16:32 Stephen Twigg: Gove in real danger of devaluing GCSEs On air

On Air | Michael Gove MP | Education Secretary | BBC News
Stephen Twigg said there was a “real danger” that Michael Gove was devaluing current GCSE qualifications through his rhetoric on the subject. “I think there is a real danger that the rhetoric we get from Michel Gove devalues the GCSEs th... Continue to article
12:44 Gove outlines GCSE reforms House of Commons

Gove outlines GCSE reforms
Michael Gove has set out an overhaul of GCSEs which he says will make the exams "more demanding, more fulfilling, and more stretching". The Government is today publishing draft details of new GCSE content in core academic subjects. From... Continue to article
= Key Development Monday 10th June
11:07 Transcript: Prime Minster's speech on the battle for Britain's future Transcripts

Prime Minster's speech on the battle for Britain's future
PRIME MINISTER: PLAN FOR BRITAIN’S SUCCESS INTRODUCTION It is a pleasure to be here today – and to see the sheer scale of DP World’s investment. A site larger than the Olympic Park, cranes taller than the London Eye, a port that will... Continue to article
= Key Development Friday 7th June
08:41 Teachers Face Ban Over Indecent Child Images News

News | SkyNews
The announcement comes as pressure mounts on Michael Gove over a decision to allow a cautioned teacher back into the classroom. Continue to article
= Key Development Monday 3rd June
14:15 No 10 statement: No 10: Taskforce on tackling extremism and radicalisation Press Release

14:15| Press Release | No 10
10 Downing St press release The Prime Minister's task force on tackling extremism and radicalisation met for an initial meeting today. Ministers attending were: David Cameron, Prime Minister (chair) Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister Georg... Continue to article
= Key Development Friday 31st May
10:38 Mark Ferguson blog: Michael Gove, you have no class News

Blog | LabourList
The right are working themselves up into a lather this morning over Michael Gove’s Op-Ed in the Telegraph. They seem delighted that the Education Secretary has attacked Ed Miliband as a”blancmange in ... Continue to article
= Key Development Wednesday 22nd May
10:58 Michael Gove: Free schools local democracy in action On air

On Air | Michael Gove MP | Education Secretary | BBC News
Michael Gove said free schools were an example of “local democracy in action” “No free school can be set up, no free school can survive, unless parents want it. So it’s a brilliant example of local democracy in action. Local people, some... Continue to article
= Key Development Monday 20th May
14:48 Transcript: Michael Gove: Scrapping the EBacc shows that Labour does not care about raising standards Transcripts

Michael Gove: Scrapping the EBacc shows that Labour does not care about raising standards
Dear Stephen, The English Baccalaureate (EBacc) You have told today’s Daily Telegraph a Labour government would ‘scrap’ the EBacc. You said the EBacc ‘is at best an irrelevance and in some cases it is distorting young people’s choices so... Continue to article
= Key Development Sunday 19th May
20:01 Vince Cable: I'd never say never to leadership bid On air

On Air | Vince Cable MP | Business Secretary | Pienaar's Politics, BBC Radio 5Live
Vince Cable hinted at a future bid for the leadership of the Liberal Democrats, admitting he could “never” rule out running for the top job. However the Business Secretary firmly rejected the suggestion from Education Secretary Michael G... Continue to article
16:35 Geoffrey Vero: Equal marriage is a grave error from Tory leadership On air

On Air | Geoffrey Vero | Conservative Association leade... | BBC News
Geoffrey Vero accused David Cameron of making a “grave error” by seeking to legalise same-sex marriage after he delivered a letter to Downing Street outlining the opposition of 30 former and current party association chairs to the policy. ... Continue to article
= Key Development Thursday 16th May
20:01 Doctor in the House The House Magazine

20:01 | The House Magazine | PoliticsHome
BY PAUL WAUGH AND SAM MACRORY "I still write prescriptions for people here and I can still treat people in an emergency…It’s a very convertible currency.” Sitting in his Commons office, Dr Liam Fox has a characteri... Continue to article
20:00 Friends in far off places The House Magazine

20:00 | The House Magazine | PoliticsHome
One of the loneliest jobs around will have felt even more isolating than usual for David Cameron recently. Grumbling backbenchers, voting against your Government’s legislative agenda. Cabinet colleagues, perhaps with leadership ambiti... Continue to article
19:41 Vince Cable: HMRC not to blame for companies' tax avoidance On air

On Air | Vince Cable MP | Business Secretary | Channel 4 News
Vince Cable said tax avoidance by multinational companies was not the fault of HMRC. “The HMRC are there to enforce the law and if the company had managed to operate legally, then it’s not a failure by HMRC. I think we do have a job to d... Continue to article
09:31 Nick Clegg: There is no leadership contest in the Lib Dems PoliticsHome News

Nick Clegg: There is no leadership contest in the Lib Dems
Nick Clegg has strongly denied Michael Gove’s assertion that representatives for Vince Cable were “on manoeuvres” with an eye to the leadership. The Lib Dem leader was confronted with a caller to his Call Clegg radio show asking why a “7... Continue to article
= Key Development Wednesday 15th May
14:36 Gove writes to all schools re the NUT/NASUWT instructions on pay Press Release

14:36| Press Release
Department for Education press release The Secretary of State for Education has today written to all schools regarding the instructions the NUT and NASWUT have recently sent to their members on pay. If schools followed all of the NUT ... Continue to article
11:55 Dot Commons: The heir to Blair? Maybe Dot Commons

Michael Gove has had a busy morning. After giving a clip to the cameras as he left his home this morning (making a literal U-turn when he walked the wrong way out of the door), he seemed unwilling to drop another bombshell after the week...
08:14 House of Commons Business Commons Business

08:14 | Commons Business | PoliticsHome
COMMONS CHAMBER 11.30am: Welsh questions 12.00 noon: Prime minister’s questions Main business Queen’s Speech debate on economic growth (opposition speakers: Shadow chancellor Ed Balls and shadow Treasury minister Chris Leslie) ... Continue to article
08:14 House of Commons Business Commons Business

08:14 | Commons Business | PoliticsHome
WEDNESDAY MAY 15 COMMONS CHAMBER 11.30am: Welsh questions 12.00 noon: Prime minister’s questions Main business Queen’s Speech debate on economic growth (opposition speakers: Shadow chancellor Ed Balls and shadow Treasury ministe... Continue to article
= Key Development Tuesday 14th May
11:50 Every department will need to take 'fair share' of cuts in spending review, warns Alexander House of Commons

Every department will need to take 'fair share' of cuts in spending review, warns Alexander
Danny Alexander has warned that all government departments have to take their “fair share” of the £11.5bn savings to be set out in the next spending review. The allocations are expected to be revealed in June, and ministers have been arg... Continue to article
= Key Development Monday 13th May
11:39 Lobby:Lobby briefing Monday 13 May Lobby Briefings

11:39 | Lobby Briefings | PoliticsHome
Parliamentary Private Secretaries will be free to back an amendment calling for a referendum on the EU, but ministers must abstain or vote against, Downing Street has said. An amendment criticising the Government for failing to include ... Continue to article
11:16 Dot Commons: UK TV Gove Dot Commons

You might think that the Conservative's favourite cable TV channel would naturally be Dave, but it appears that Michael Gove is more of a fan of UK TV Gold. It has emerged that the Education Secretary used a poll commissioned by the channel...
= Key Development Sunday 12th May
11:44 Baroness Warsi: Wrong to link suicide with general policy discussion On air

On Air | Baroness Warsi | Foreign Office minister | Murnaghan, Sky News
Baroness Warsi hit out at people trying to link the suicide of a woman who was hit by the ‘bedroom tax’ to policy reforms in general. “I think those are very tragic circumstances and certainly I think to try to link them in any way to a ... Continue to article
09:55 Michael Gove: I would vote to leave Europe today On air

On Air | Michael Gove MP | Education Secretary | The Andrew Marr Show, BBC One
Michael Gove said he would vote to leave the European Union in a referendum today, but planned to abstain from the vote calling for a referendum bill before 2015. “Yes [I would vote to leave in a referendum today], I’m not happy with our... Continue to article
= Key Development Friday 10th May
17:11 House of Commons Business House of Commons

House of Commons Business
COMMONS CHAMBER 11.30am: Welsh questions 12.00 noon: Prime minister’s questions Main business Queen’s Speech debate on economic growth (opposition speakers: Shadow chancellor Ed Balls and shadow Treasury minister Chris Leslie) ... Continue to article
16:57 In Brief Events

16:57 | Events | PoliticsHome
Business secretary Vince Cable speaks at the British American Business Council transatlantic conference in Birmingham (20.00) Education secretary Michael Gove delivers the Centre for Policy Studies Keith Joseph memorial lecture in London... Continue to article
= Key Development Thursday 9th May
11:57 Dot Commons: Angry Words Dot Commons

Michael Gove has been burnishing his intellectual credentials today, speaking at Brighton College on “What does it mean to be an educated person?” Choice quotes include: "There are all too many children and young people only too happy...
= Key Development Wednesday 8th May
19:23 Michael Gove: Britain will not be a soft touch on migration On air

On Air | Michael Gove MP | Education Secretary | Channel 4 News
Michael Gove said the Government would ensure Britain would not be “a soft touch” on migrants. “I do think that we need to tackle the problem, yes. I think that we need to make sure that we get the benefit of having the most talented peo... Continue to article
= Key Development Friday 3rd May
13:25 Michael Gove: Every change UKIP voters will switch to Tories On air

On Air | Michael Gove MP | Education Secretary | World at One, BBC Radio 4
Michael Gove said many UKIP voters would switch to the Tories when faced with a straight choice between David Cameron and Ed Miliband. "The first [point] is that at the next election, as Nigel Farage acknowledge on the radio this morning... Continue to article
= Key Development Wednesday 1st May
14:37 PCS: Gove refuses to listen over office closures Press Release

14:37| Press Release
Public and Commerical Services union press release Education secretary Michael Gove's civil servants will walk out on strike this afternoon (1) in opposition to the closure of half of his department's offices, the Public and Commercial S... Continue to article
= Key Development Tuesday 23rd April
15:47 Nigel Farage: Cameron cannot win the next election PoliticsHome News

Nigel Farage: Cameron cannot win the next election
UKIP leader Nigel Farage has said the Conservatives must ditch David Cameron before any deal with his party could be struck. At a lunch for journalists in Westminster he also said Michael Gove would be a good replacement as Tory leader a... Continue to article
= Key Development Monday 22nd April
15:24 Dot Commons: Heroic Gove Dot Commons

‘You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose’ – unless you’re the Coalition, in which case you govern in heroic couplets. Or so says Michael Gove. Tory MP David Ruffley asked a question in the House of Commons today targeted at two of Go...
15:22 Gove rejects call to boost local powers for schools PoliticsHome News

Gove rejects call to boost local powers for schools
Michael Gove today slapped down a call to boost the power local authorities have over schools. In an interview with the House last week, Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg said Labour may allow councils to oversee new schools to hel... Continue to article
13:45 Labour: Government trying to catch up with Tech Bacc Press Release

13:45| Press Release
Labour party press release Stephen Twigg MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the Government's proposed Tech Bacc, said: "Seven months after Labour announced plans for a Technical Baccalaureate, the Government is toda... Continue to article
= Key Development Friday 19th April
10:09 Toby Young blog: Michael Gove's proposal to extend the school day will lead to showdown with teaching unions News

Blog | Telegraph politics blog
Michael Gove’s suggestion at yesterday’s Spectator Education Conference that teachers should work longer days and have shorter holidays didn’t go down well with the NUT rep in the audience. She told h... Continue to article
= Key Development Thursday 18th April
20:00 Scars of battle The House Magazine

20:00 | The House Magazine | PoliticsHome
Margaret Thatcher would no doubt be quietly satisfied that in the week after her death she dominated the political landscape in just the way she used to in her heyday. The demise of Britain’s first woman Prime Minister – a woman who u... Continue to article
16:10 Lobby:No.10: Kerslake and Heywood article is understandable Lobby Briefings

16:10 | Lobby Briefings | PoliticsHome
The Prime Minister's spokesman said it was "understandable" that civil servants would want to write positive articles about Margaret Thatcher. “He thinks it is very understandable that many individuals and many institutions will have wan... Continue to article
14:17 Michael Gove calls for longer school day Press Release

14:17| Press Release
Speaking at the Spectator conference today, Michael Gove commented on the need for longer school days and terms as well as arguing that the unions are failing to do what is right for children. See below. School term and day Secretary ... Continue to article
06:37 Kevin Brennan: Govt is focusing on pet projects, not school places On air

On Air | Kevin Brennan MP | Shadow Schools Minister | Daybreak, ITV News
Kevin Brennan accused the Department for Education of prioritising its “pet projects” over providing enough places for all children. “It shouldn’t be a lottery because the Government should make sure that they’re putting money into areas... Continue to article
= Key Development Tuesday 16th April
07:00 Laura McInerney: Why welfare and education are inextricably linked News

Opinion | The Guardian
Michael Gove may have taken 'children and families' off his department's name, but he can not pretend that welfare reforms do not affect children's education, argues Laura McInerney Continue to article
= Key Development Wednesday 27th March
07:43 Stephen Twigg – Britain faces a 15,000 teacher shortage Press Release

07:43| Press Release
Labour press release Labour is today warning that Britain faces a huge shortage of qualified teachers – needing an extra 15,000 teachers by the next election, because of an extra 256,000 pupils due to come into the school system by 2014/... Continue to article
= Key Development Monday 25th March
16:39 Toby Young blog: Gove condemned by teaching union for putting knowledge at the heart ofthe new National Curriculum. They'd prefer children to be taughtessential skills instead, such as how to walk News

Blog | Telegraph politics blog
Quelle surprise. The Association of Teachers and Lecturers has passed a "vote of no confidence" in Michael Gove and the new head of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw, accusing them of failing to improve educ... Continue to article
= Key Development Thursday 21st March
22:43 Gove admits to misgivings over press deal PoliticsHome News

Gove admits to misgivings over press deal
Michael Gove has admitted he has concerns about Parliament’s decision to pass a law on press regulation. The new press regulator will be governed by a Royal Charter, while legislation will ensure that Royal Charter cannot be altered with... Continue to article
20:00 Review: 'Real Britannia: Our Ten Proudest Years – The Glory and the Spin' The House Magazine

20:00 | The House Magazine | PoliticsHome
Real Britannia: Our Ten Proudest Years – The Glory and the Spin Colin Brown One World Publications £16.99 This is a truly remarkable book. Written by a top quality journalist rather than by a trained historian, it approaches the ten most ... Continue to article
= Key Development Wednesday 20th March
11:05 Labour: Government going back to outdated cirriculum Press Release

11:05| Press Release
Labour party press release Stephen Twigg MP, Labour's Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on criticism of the new national curriculum, said: "Yet again Michael Gove's back-of-an-envelope plans have been criticised by experts. "We ... Continue to article
= Key Development Friday 15th March
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Stories involving Michael Gove

26/11/2012 in Tax
Cameron faces internal criticism over drink levy

Cameron faces internal criticism over drink levy

David Cameron is facing a backlash from his own Cabinet over plans to introduce a minimum price for alcohol. Michael Gove and Andrew Lansley claim the move is unfair on low-income drinkers who consume responsibly. Meanwhile a study from the Adam Smith Institute has cast doubt on whether a minimum price would be successful in cutting crime and preventing health problems.

25/08/2012 in Law, Justice & Prisons
Ofqual to probe GCSE grades

The Labour Party has welcomed the decision of exams regulator Ofqual to "look closely" at the way examiners awarded marks for this summer's GCSE exams.

Regulator Glenys Stacey said in a letter to the National Association of Head Teachers there was a "question" lying over how the grade bands were set.

"We recognise the continuing concerns among students, parents and teachers about this year's GCSE English results," Ms Stacy wrote. "We will look closely at how the results were arrived at. We will do this quickly, but thoroughly."

Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg welcomed Ofqual's decision but said he would still urge an independent parliamentary inquiry "to find out what happened to cause this fiasco in the first place".

Head teachers have written to to the Education Secretary asking for an inquiry into the fall in GCSE grades.

The National Association of Head Teachers wrote to Michael Gove after it was inundated with calls on the subject of grade boundary changes.

Exam boards confirmed grade boundaries had been raised by as much as 10%, often halfway through the year.

Shadow education minister Karen Buck said there was a "coalition of anxiety" over the disappointing results.

One large chain of academies, the Academies Enterprise Trust, is planning a legal challenge against the Government over the shift.

01/07/2012 in Schools
Gove to double free schools

The Government is planning to double the number of free schools, allowing between 80 and 100 more to be launched. Education Secretary Michael Gove is expected to give his approval to the schools in the next ten days, bringing the total number in the country to more than 170.

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06/09/2012 in Schools
Gove 'panders' to Tory right

Michael Gove has “unashamedly” pandered to the Tory right in his desire to become leader, according to Labour’s Andrew Adonis.

In an interview with The House magazine, Lord Adonis confirmed he was in regular contact with Mr Gove, and praised him for putting academies at the heart of the Government’s education programme.

But he criticised the Education Secretary for compromising progressive principles to court the right-wing:

“Some of the stuff that Michael has been doing has been unashamedly pandering to the Tory right. Michael… would like to be progressive but he also seems to me to want to be leader of the Conservative Party and is making the classic mistake, if I can give him some advice through your columns, of thinking that they way that do that is by pandering to the worst in your party.”

It was “slightly depressing” that many in the Labour party were still against the academy system, he added:

“The fact that the Conservatives have now put at the centre of their education programme the creation of academies to replace failing comprehensive schools rather than doing what they were doing ten or 15 years ago, which was setting up a few more grammar schools or a few more assisted places at private schools, is a sign, basically, that we’ve won the argument. Well that’s great. That’s fantastic.

“The slightly depressing thing is that some people on my own side… think that we compromised too much with the other side without understanding what’s really at stake here, which is creating successful education institutions, serving the community at large, which means predominantly the less well off because most people aren’t particularly well off, where they didn’t exist before.”

04/07/2012 in Schools
Restaurant bosses to review school meals

Restaurant bosses to review school meals

The owners of the Leon restaurant in London are to review school meals.

Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent have been asked by Michael Gove to give him advice in the form of a report in 2013.

The new iniative is the latest Government attempt to try and make school meals healthier as figures show that over half of secondary schools serve greasy food on a daily basis.

28/06/2012 in Schools
Gove targets uncooperative councils

Michael Gove compel two underperforming local councils to have their schools join the Government's academy programme. Schools in Leeds and Middlesbrough will be expected to accept new sponsors and possibly new headteachers. But education unions have accused Mr Gove of choosing the councils because they have been less cooperative with ministers. Chris Keates, general secretary of the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers, said the plan "demonstrates that this is not about running a quality education service [but] about victimising people who don't agree with their ideological agenda."