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(not satire – it’s the Tories!)
The education secretary Michael Gove has decided that unqualified teachers can teach our children.
And now even senior Tories are questioning the decision.
According to the Times Educational Supplement, Tory vice-chairman Richard Harrington has written to Gove expressing his “worry” that the policy will be used to ‘hire on the cheap’ and fill classrooms with unqualified teachers not because they have valuable experience but because they are lower cost.
Of course, this is all being said in private – in public Harrington supports Gove’s policy of dumbing down teaching and we only know about Harrington’s concerns because someone leaked his letter.
God forbid that actual parents of actual children should be involved in the discussions.
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Michael Gove: too much thinking still prevails in UK schools
Theresa May Announces Critical Thinking To Become Class C Drug
Michael Gove – WW1 quite nice actually. And WW2 a bit of a hoot.
Gove announces plan to phase out teaching in schools
EXCLUSIVE – leaked sample questions from Michael Gove’s new GCSE Mathematics examination
Independent Scotland to Retain Michael Gove in Severe Blow to Pro-Indy Camp
Tough exams and six of the best from a well-oiled cane are keys to success says Michael Gove
BBFC – Michael Gove ‘too scary’ for under-12s
Act Of Gove: an event beyond human control – often of a destructive nature – for which there is no legal redress
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
Tom Pride reports the private misgivings within the Tory party of Gove hiring cheap, unqualified teachers. If this continues, we really will head back to the 19th century and poorly paid, poorly educated teachers worse than those Cole describes in ‘Guild Socialism Restated’.
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well when ones no brain to think then ones not nowing you been shafted by them
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No one with a brain that is working would send their child to a state conditioning centre. Home education is the only way now.
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I wonder what the next step will be, having 6th formers teaching the juniors?
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schools, (in the now old fashioned sense of the word), are now merely detention centers…i was going to say, rapidly becoming detention centers…which one you choose….
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As it happens, Richard Harrington is my local MP. Oddly, he hasn’t made much of a song-and-dance about becoming Tory party vice-chairman. But it might explain why he hasn’t been as responsive lately to my emails – doubtless busy doing damage limitation for Grant Shapps…
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