Gove's climbing down over the English Bacc

At the end of the day, something needs to change. The exam system now is not working. A return to a more rigourous examination is long overdue if you want your grandchildren to be employable. Quite funny that this has been scuppered by the Lib Dems - Nick Clegg will no doubt send his children to an academically selective school which is beloved by those who preace the value of comrehensive education. Live is divisive and giving children a handful of useless exam passes does them no favours out in the big wide world. The educational equivilent of the Sports Day when every child gets a prize.

Yes, he's utterly self-promoting, and the ebacc was a headline catching idea with zero understanding of the variety of ways that kids learn. He may not be giving up, and I think his plans for A-levels will probably go ahead, but the opposition to his inegalitarian model for exams at age 16 is so overwhelming - and backed up by knowledge! - that he will struggle, I think, to recreate the divisive system he craves. Hope so, anyway !

As I have said before, the man is a self promoting idiot.

No I don't think given up completely at all absent and still keen to get rid of modular exams and other so called "reforms" .

With any luck he'll be out of government before he can do anything more about it.

I'm sure that is a relief to everyone involved, especially in the light of so many other changes in schools planned to happen at the same time. However, a little voice inside my head suggests that he hasn't given up completely.