So the early contours of the new government’s approach to ongoing school rebuilding is becoming a good deal clearer. Michael Gove has a short video statement here that includes a continued commitment to renewal and renovation …..
Posts Tagged ‘Michael Gove’
What you may have missed in May
With so much to look forward to in June (National School Environments Week 18-25 June and the BCSE Industry Awards 24 June), we thought we’d make sure that you haven’t missed any of the important developments we picked up in May. It all seems so long ago now, but a month ago, we weren’t entirely [...]
New government: long signalled, swift action
The change from Ed Balls to Michael Gove into the rebranded Department for Education is not going to be the only speedy change in the coming months in the worlds of education, and design. It is likely to be the most radical period of change that these policy areas has seen for almost a decade. [...]
Gove 1 Balls 0 – A Battle of Ideas
The Conservative Party will make education its top campaign message this week. The two main parties have been engaged in ‘political mirroring’ for months; it’s now time for political attack. I met Michael Gove MP, again at the weekend in Brighton at their spring policy forum. This man is in the right place at the [...]
Kunskapsskolan – new dynamics in teaching and learning?
In 2008 we did our first of many study tours to Scandinavia including visits to a number of Kunskapsskolan schools. At the time people wondered why we were so interested in this chain of schools and what impact it might have on the UK. Fast forward a couple of years and you cannot read one [...]
