How Michael Gove's education reforms could encourage his policies as Prime Minister

[LeftishBrit]

Untrained doctors for the NHS

Gove celebrated his decision to end the madness of needing to be qualified as a teacher as a prerequisite for educating children in academies and free schools, saying it led to “brilliant people coming into schools up and down the country”.

Building on this success, Gove could end the nationwide shortage of highly trained surgeons by allowing generally excellent people to come and have a go at heart surgery. Your mate Dave may not be a trained physician, but with a degree from Oxford and a can-do attitude what does that matter?

Cabinet ministers must be able to recite a poem by heart

Gove celebrated the traditional English canon back in 2012 when he overhauled the English curriculum in primary schools. He focused on traditional virtues and wanted every child who left school to be able to recite a poem by heart.

Recognising this as a great method of separating the wheat from the chaff, could Gove use it to select his cabinet?


(And much more at link)

https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/jun/30/how-michael-goves-education-reforms-inspire-prime-minister?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Facebook