to wonder why Gove is announcing a curriculum he won't make schools follow?

[Talkinpeace]

Because
Scottish Schools
Welsh Schools
Private schools
Free Schools
and
Academies (more than half of all secondary schools)

are not required to follow the new National Curriculum.

In fact, by the time the thing goes live, less than 30% of the UKs children will be affected.

So why waste the money promoting something that his other policies (academy conversion / free schools) are making irrelevant?

I think he has a gold star poster on his bedroom wall, and only gets a star if he announces something "new" each week.

echt

I have a similar theory that his mum promised him 50p every time he got a mention on the radio.

Echt and motherof

He is just very found of the sound of his own voice.

I think it's to push the remaining schools into academy status.

He's a complete and utter prat and agree with ByTheSea.

We have an entirely separate system in Scotland, and we have our own Education minister-Gove is nothing to do with education in Scotland.

The Scotland/Wales/UK thing is a bit irrelevant. Whilst on paper academies don't have to follow the national curriculum, in primary at least its going to be difficult for them not to in the core subjects. They're still going to be inspected by Ofsted and children will still be assessed using KS1 and KS2 assessments. It's going to be difficult for the majority of children to pass the KS2 tests if you don't follow the curriculum for English and Maths at least.

I think I've read somewhere the primary academies are going to have to follow the curriculum. Not sure how true that is though.

Lots of those schools will still follow part or all of the curriculum even if they don't have to.

But if they do not HAVE to teach the 12 times table by the age of 9 - because its a stupid idea for all but the most able - they cannot be penalised by Ofsted for it ....
so they won't
so its all hot air.

I think echt and mother are probably right
he is just a year 2 who needs a daily pat on the head to feel valued

He's hoping that we're all really really stupid and don't realise that only a handful of schools will follow this stuff?

Because he's an arsehole and hasn't got the first clue about what really goes in schools......

I agree with bythesea - all schools will become academies soon.

*plus he's a dick.