Introducing: Gove's 'chancellors'

So Gove is now planning a third tier to oversee free schools and academies. Isn't this duplication of what local authorities still do for most of our primary schools and half of secondaries? DfE can't cope, so let's create more confusion and more cost to the tax payer!

Guardian, Richard Adams and Warwick Mansell, 20th November 2013

Michael Gove to appoint new regulators to oversee free schools and academies

'Chancellors' to run eight English education regions in system which echoes model of school governance in US

Michael Gove a zealot, says shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt

Guardian, 15th November 2013

Labour's Hunt criticises Gove for 'crazed, burned-out investment banker model of teaching' where job seen as short-term career


Tristram Hunt has described the education secretary, Michael Gove, as a zealot and said that a string of recent high-profile failures – including the controversy over the Al-Madinah free school in Derby – meant that the public had turned against the coalition government's changes to the education system.

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