Retired teacher uses Freedom of Information request to show that Gove's comments...

[Ardemax]

...on children's ignorance in history was based on PR surveys by UKTV Gold and Premier Inn

You can't even make this stuff up.

Read it all here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2...gers-ignorance

If you need an accurate portrayal of Gove, here's one: http://i.imgur.com/lLBeOx0.jpg

Thoughts?

[-:Undertaker:-]

Interesting, seems more on the side of personality politics though which i'm not really interested in. That said, I rather like Gove in many ways - i'm sure he was the one who removed the EU from the Geography syllabus and i've heard in the past he leans towards grammar schools. It's just a shame he's trapped in a useless party that stands for nothing remotely conservative (ie, education by selection).

If I had to pick out ministers in this government that I think something of, Gove would be up there along with IDS and Owen Paterson.

[Ardemax]

Interesting, seems more on the side of personality politics though which i'm not really interested in. That said, I rather like Gove in many ways - i'm sure he was the one who removed the EU from the Geography syllabus and i've heard in the past he leans towards grammar schools. It's just a shame he's trapped in a useless party that stands for nothing remotely conservative (ie, education by selection).

If I had to pick out ministers in this government that I think something of, Gove would be up there along with IDS and Owen Paterson.

I dislike Gove because he basically brands all teachers as incapable idiots who are teaching even bigger incapable idiots.