David Cameron and his front-benchers seem to be reeling off one impressive speech after another at the moment. And today Michael Gove continued the run, with a key address on the inequalities which blight the British schools system. It’s well-worth reading in full – for the revealing statistics and fizzy slogans – but Gove’s impassioned plea for school independence jumped out at me:
“What allows [successsful] schools to operate in the way they do are structures which are truly liberal…
…academies, and the city technology colleges which came before them and on which they were modelled, were designed to be free.
Free to choose and shape their own curriculum.
Free to hire and reward their own staff in their own way.
Free to co-operate and collaborate with who they wanted, in the private and public sector, in the way they wanted.
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