Posts Tagged ‘Michael Gove’
Government announces specific physics teacher target
In a letter to the Chief Executive of the Training and Development Agency for Schools, the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, has asserted the need to provide a specific allocation for the training of 925 specialist physics teachers in 2011-12. In contrast to recent years, when an overall allocation for the training of [...]
Today’s physics news: Monday, 6 September 2010
Graduate tax would prompt top graduates to leave Britain, CBI warns Business leaders believe tens of thousands would emigrate to avoid being charged for degree according to salary Guardian Michael Gove wants baccalaureate qualification for England Pupils with five GCSEs – including one science – would gain the proposed certificate as ‘special recognition’, says [...]
“We need to increase status, prestige and esteem of teaching”, says Shadow Children’s Minister
Michael Gove MP, Shadow Secretary of State for Children’s, Schools and Families, today, 2 July, 2009, visited the Institute of Physics to address concerns about the state of secondary school physics education in the UK, stating that much of the problem for physics in the UK is down to a lack of specialist physics knowledge [...]
