My gosh, Michael Gove is hyperactive at the moment. From his interview with James in the latest issue of the Spectator, to his recent announcements about failing primary schools
and secondary school standards, this is a man who just cannot stop. So stop he doesn’t. The Secretary of State for education is delivering yet another speech on Monday. And he has another interview (£), with Rachel Sylvester and Alice Thomson, in today’s Times.
The Times interview, if you can vault across the paywall, is a worthwhile read. In it, Gove draws attention to the anti-reformist bent of local authoritarians; he warns that if we fail to
adequately educate our population, then “we will all end up being employed by Chinese billionaires”; and he ranks Nick Soames ahead of Nick Clegg in his affections. It also contains this
quite significant admission that Gove isn’t against profit-making academies for ideological reasons, but more for reasons of presentation:
“Obviously I don’t have any ideological objection to profit-making institutions.
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