{"id":476,"date":"2010-05-27T23:15:46","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T22:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=476"},"modified":"2010-05-28T09:25:30","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T08:25:30","slug":"gove-says-go-and-offers-children-their-very-own-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Gove says &#8216;Go!&#8217; and offers children their very own school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yMl2q-lfzvE&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/yMl2q-lfzvE&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0&#038;color1=0x3a3a3a&#038;color2=0x999999\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It was a good job I took a screenshot of the Department for Education site a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=461\">couple of days ago<\/a>: Go-go Gove has now sprung into action and got YouTubed for the <a href='http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/'>home page<\/a>. He&#8217;s also found time to abolish another quango: the second this week (I think he must enjoy it). It looks as though he&#8217;s offering the charming children in front of him the chance to set up their very own academy. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;re all very interested: there must be nothing they&#8217;d like better than to run a school. After all, they&#8217;ve been there for at least a couple of years so they must have got the hang of it by now (and they&#8217;d only cause trouble on the streets otherwise).<\/p>\n<p>The energetic Mr Gove (doesn&#8217;t he seem bouncy, Tiggerish even?) was so pleased by his school visit that he dashed off a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/news\/letters\/gove-qcda-270510\">letter to QCDA<\/a> to tell them to pack their bags &#8211; again. Poor things, QCDA have only just got used the D in their name and been sent <em>to<\/em> Coventry, now they&#8217;re being sent <em>from<\/em> Coventry to oblivion. Now that anyone, even children, can run their own schools, who needs boring things like a curriculum or qualifications? As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/education\/2010\/may\/27\/school-curriculum-quango-abolished\">Guardian points out<\/a> closure of the QCDA and of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=461\">Becta<\/a>, also announced this week, will mean 730 job losses in Coventry. Being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-cov1.htm\">sent to Coventry<\/a> never did sound much like fun&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go-go Gove springs into action: set up a school, never mind the curriculum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2,3],"tags":[85,82],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-examining","category-words","tag-academies","tag-gove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}