to think if Gove thinks it's good to change people at the top occasionally, the same should probably apply to Education secretaries?

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If that's what he thinks.

A change at the top is always good. Brings in fresh ideas.

Alarmingly, he's very popular with the 'party faithful'.

An example of evidence-based policy is the use of synthetic phonics. And it's not party political either.

I think understanding the dynamics behind the enduring resistance to evidence would make quite a difference.

kayakinggirl - do you really think you wont be making more schemes of work under Gove? I've made more changes to our curriculum over the last few years than ever before.

Gove, if you're reading: Just decide on a spec and stick with it fgs! I don't mind what you want me to teach; I'll teach it. But please let me teach it for a few years and embed it in our school curriculum before changing your mind again. I feel like a firefighter not a teacher.

It was the implementation of phonics that's the issue. It 's no good for kids who can already read and the test with non-words is ridiculous!

It would be interesting to know how many of the Cabinet's children are privately educated and therefore blissfully immune to Gove's decisions.

I'd like to know this as well. I did read somewhere that Goove's children did actually go to a state school. I somehow think it will be a little leafy oversubscribed state school-probably a church one, rather than an inner-city school with 60% FSM! Does anyone know which school they do attend? I bet the teachers there just love parents evening!

Gove needs to be refreshed not only out of the Department for Education but out of Parliament. The man is an outright disaster area, and his refusal to acknowledge the failure of his policies is massively prejudicing thousands of children.

The man is an autocratic, headline seeking menace with his head up his arse about what works in education. Hint: undermining teachers while complaining about how rubbish they are then trying to recruit new teachers by throwing them into the fire with no training is a rather ineffective strategy.
He has to go. I fear for my children's education.

Wasn't Gove also the one who had Lord whatever-his-name as junior education minister? The bloke from that think tank about education, who wanted to change everything and put Anneliese Briggs in place as Head of a school where she left after three weeks or so?

Seems a while ago, but then changes in education appear so rapidly that it is hard to keep up.

I really hope Gove goes for the leader of the Tories.

I really hope Gove goes for the leader of the Tories.

If you mean because he'd be out if education and he'd fail, making himself deeply unemployable by Cameron/any other future Tory Leader then I agree.

It's a high risk strategy, but if it got him away from education....

He is actually very well thought of from the inside. A revolutionary. Clearing up the mess is still the party line.

I think he would be exposed and challenged esp by our media as right now Cameron is almost scared of him.

Why aren't the media making a big fuss about this? It's all been forgotten about?

Gove .... I have no words for him ...

I have lots of words for him!

I think it's a bloody good idea - otherwise we end up with Thatcher and Blair leading us for years on end, and Alex Salmond up here making a monumental mess of things