Miliband team hit back after Gove’s blancmange jibe
Ed Miliband’s team have hit back after Michael Gove likened the Labour leader to a blancmange in an op-ed article in today’s Telegraph.
Gove defends ‘Mr Men’ speech: ‘I have every right’
Michael Gove has insisted he has the right to force children away from popular books like Twilight in the search for “higher standards”.
Michael Gove’s ‘anti-Mr Men’ speech in full
Education secretary Michael Gove has launched a scathing attack on teachers’ enthusiasm for providing pupils with ‘relevant’ material, as he prepares for a major overhaul of the national curriculum. Read it in full here.
Longer school day: Permanent detention for everyone?
Education secretary Michael Gove wants to extend the school day and shorten holidays in order to modernise the ’19th century’ British education system.
Comment: The government plot to turn all schools into academies
Michael Gove’s conspiracy to turn all schools into academies and free schools has seen predatory government brokers move in whenever there’s a blip in Ofsted school results.
Leading by example: Gove bullies MPs over bullying allegations
Michael Gove has shrugged off allegations that his special advisers bullied civil servants in his department, in a bitterly fought committee session which proved frustrating for both sides.
Shakespearian tragedy: Gove waxes lyrical about the fall of Huhne
People will remember Chris Huhne as the man who came within a hair’s breadth of becoming deputy prime minister but ended up in “Brixton nick”, Michael Gove has said.
Michael Gove GCSE statement in full
Read Michael Gove’s statement making a humiliating U-turn on GCSE reform in full.
End of the golden boy: Gove humiliated in new coalition U-turn
Michael Gove’s reputation as Cabinet’s golden boy took a severe hammering this morning, as he announced a humiliating retreat on his ambitious plans for GCSEs to the Commons.
Gove pressured to fire special advisers after Twitter row
Labour is demanding an official investigation into allegations that Michael Gove’s special advisers could have broken their code of conduct.
