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SUMMARY:What is Michael Gove really up to? Dissecting the new school wars.
 .. - Melissa Benn\, parent\, campaigner and writer
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CONTACT:Katie O'Donovan
DESCRIPTION:Leadership for Learning Supper Seminar with Melissa Benn\n\nEd
 ucation Secretary Michael Gove has launched a torrent of initiatives aimed
  at fundamentally changing the landscape of English education. Naturally\,
  the rhetoric is all about school improvement. Yet nothing is quite as it 
 seems with Gove's so called 'quiet revolution.' In the name of autonomy an
 d freedom\, schools are passing away from the oversight of elected local a
 uthorities into the hands of a growing array of unaccountable charitable a
 nd other providers - including\, it is now clear\, for-profit companies - 
 answerable only to Whitehall. Data now emerging on the performance of acad
 emies suggests\, at best\, a mixed picture of success. At the same time\, 
 academic rigour for all\, within a non selective framework\, is promoted a
 s a central aim. Yet grammar schools are being allowed to expand\, if on t
 he sly\, while vocational provision is being fundamentally reorganised. Wh
 at will all these changes mean for our schools of the future in terms of b
 oth quality and equality? Is this a return to the stratification of the 19
 94 settlement via the quasi-market rather than the state? And how should t
 hose who oppose the Coalition's direction of travel present the arguments 
 for a more unified\, fairer system in the 21st century?
LOCATION:GS5\, Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills
  Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ
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