Michael Gove’s speech on improving schools – full text and audio

This morning Michael Gove gave a speech at the London Academy of Excellence on improving ‘bog standard’ state schools. Here’s what he said:-

It’s a pleasure to be here at the London Academy of Excellence - and to be able to congratulate the students and teachers of this superb new free school on their amazing successes. This start-up – a genuinely independent school which is free to all, socially inclusive and academically excellent, drawing its students from one of the most disadvantaged boroughs in the country, but sending them to the best universities in the world – is a wonderful example of what's changing in state education. The pace of change in our education system recently has been fast - and the reaction at times furious.

I appreciate that since I became Education Secretary I have been asking a great deal – a very great deal – of those who work in our schools.