The educational consequences of Mr. Gove

July 9th, 2010

The botched chopping of 706 BSF school-building schemes will have much more serious results than the 25 deplorable errors in informing schools that their projects were going ahead, only to be quickly told by a red-faced Secretary of State that actually they were not.   We now know what a senior Departmental source meant when he leaked his view that it had been ‘bloody chaos’ inside DE.   It shows when an inexperienced and administratively incompetent ideologue takes charge.    But that’s the least of it. (more…)