It has taken longer than it should have for Michael Gove’s Teflon coating to wear thin, but it is now becoming clear that his gung-ho approach to education reform is leaving charred and sticky remains on the bottom of his policy pan. No-one, least of all Mr Gove, should be surprised.
Personally I would quake when faced with the wrath of Margaret Hodge MP, chair of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC). In June it reported that in England we are witnessing an emerging, and growing, crisis in school places. Its report revealed the uncomfortable truth that the number of infants in classes of more than 30 children has doubled in the last five years, with 20 per cent of primary schools full or over capacity in May 2012.
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