Gove introduces selection by the back door
June 22nd, 2012Gove and his right-wing Tory allies, such as the Daily Mail, earnestly desire to re-introduce selection , but know that if they did so straightaway in one leap they would court a whirlwind of resistance. So he’s adopted the next best thing – phasing out GCSE which was designed for Comprehensives and bringing back the Certificate of Secondary Eduacation (CSE) for ‘less intelligent’ children, as was used in the secondary moderns of the 1950s. The ultimate goal is obvious: the resurrection of the old grammar school/secondary modern divide, When taken in conjunction with examples like Kent County Council drawing on Gove’s own earlier legislation to expand grammar schools in the county, it seems clear that the Tory fixation of high-achievers at the expense of the rest has now firmly taken hold. (more…)
