Justine Greening, new Education Secretary

[ceebie]

I don't suppose this is likely to change much... or could it make a difference?

[MachiKoro]

Not sure what her experience in education is really
Got to be better than Morgan of the rictus grin though.

[Scribblegirl]

If nothing else, it's exciting that she's the first education secretary ever to have been educated at a comp.

Oh, and that less than 30 years after section 28, we have an openly gay Tory Ed Sec. That's quite cool.

I understand that compulsory sex ed may be first on the table - Morgan apparently pro but blocked by No 10.

[QuackDuckQuack]

Theresa May was shadow education secretary, so she has a lot of knowledge in education. I think she may shape the education plans more than some PMs might. And part of that was supporting free schools and grammar schools. We live in an area without grammar schools and I can't really see them being brought in locally. I imagine they might pop up on the edges of existing grammar school catchments.

I'd like to see genuinely fairer funding come in quickly, but that probably is expensive.

I'd also like to see sex and relationship education be made compulsory and a reduction in the influence of religious groups in education, but I'm not sure that either of those will be a policy.

[situatedknowledge]

I'm sure they'll use it as some way of encouraging more grammars. Glad my three are all already in Secondary. Albeit one that is struggling badly for money and has been 'forced' to lead a MAT.

[ErrolTheDragon]

The reduction of influence of religious groups would certainly never have happened under Morgan - she was an anti-secularist, inclined in the opposite direction.

Good thing Greening came out - the timing of that showed good political judgement, I think.

[t4gnut]

You immediately think no one could be worse than Gove or Morgan. Then you remember she is a tory.....

[incognito26]

When Morgan was brought in everyone said 'Well she can't be as bad as Gove.'

How wrong we were

[SnugglySnerd]

I know absolutely nothing about her but I am pleased she had a comprehensive school education. I really hope she's better than the last two!

[Believeitornot]

She's still a Tory.

Education secretaries don't operate in a bubble doing their own thing.

The reason gove was moved off education wasn't because David Cameron didn't like his policies. He just thought gove was unpopular. Same with May and Morgan.

So, we will get more of the same. Maybe with a bit of tweaking.