gove requires all schools to be above average
Q98 Chair: One is: if "good" requires pupil performance to exceed the national average, and if all schools must be good, how is this mathematically possible?
Michael Gove: By getting better all the time.
Q99 Chair: So it is possible, is it?
Michael Gove: It is possible to get better all the time.
Q100 Chair: Were you better at literacy than numeracy, Secretary of State?
Michael Gove: I cannot remember.
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Q98 Chair: One is: if "good" requires pupil performance to exceed the national average, and if all schools must be good, how is this mathematically possible?
Michael Gove: By getting better all the time.
Q99 Chair: So it is possible, is it?
Michael Gove: It is possible to get better all the time.
Q100 Chair: Were you better at literacy than numeracy, Secretary of State?
Michael Gove: I cannot remember.
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Q193 Chair: Thank you very much, Secretary of State. I will end with a final tweet. If you could be any James Bond villain, which one would you be?
Michael Gove: Gosh.
Ian Mearns: All of them.
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Q195 Lisa Nandy: Your advisers seem to want you to stop speaking.
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It should be no problem
They just all need to give 110%.
Sorted.
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They just all need to give 110%.
Sorted.
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Yeah but then if everyone is above average
That becomes the average.
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That becomes the average.
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ALL teachers are lazy cunts who have no idea about what they are doing.
Thank goodness Gove is here to show them the error of their ways.
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Thank goodness Gove is here to show them the error of their ways.
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Pfft.
He wants schools to improve year-on-year, but without any grade inflation. How this will be measurable is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think he's generally doing the right thing, but he doesn't do himself any favours by being so thoroughly unlikeable.
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He wants schools to improve year-on-year, but without any grade inflation. How this will be measurable is left as an exercise for the reader.
I think he's generally doing the right thing, but he doesn't do himself any favours by being so thoroughly unlikeable.
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