Michael Gove
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Michael Gove
@michaelgove
Spectator Editor
Joined June 2016
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To save you and me grief, I regret to inform you all that the list for this evening is already heavily oversubscribed and is now closed - Michael Gove reposted
This astonishing story by the Spectator’s @johngconnolly should be seen as a national scandal. After the George Floyd protests, the Treasury – yes, the *Treasury* - ditched its numerical reasoning test for prospective employees because it created an adverse impact on candidate
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Truly through the looking glass stuff, the public sector is so sick. They’ve sat around and decided, without dissent?, that ethnicity is more important than numeracy in appointments to the Treasury. We must change this thinking - top to bottom.Astonishing scoop from @johngconnolly in The Spectator today... The Treasury removed its Numerical Reasoning Test from the department's graduate scheme in 2019 "due to evidence of the test having adverse impact on candidate diversity". After dropping the requirement HMT boasted - Michael Gove reposted
Astonishing scoop from @johngconnolly in The Spectator today... The Treasury removed its Numerical Reasoning Test from the department's graduate scheme in 2019 "due to evidence of the test having adverse impact on candidate diversity". After dropping the requirement HMT boasted - Michael Gove reposted
Frothy right: our schools are bastions of wokist ideology that teaches british children to hate Britain Woke left: our schools are imperialist relics of a bygone factory age that fail to reckon with our wicked past Is it too much to ask for people to do basic researchZack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation" Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them" "Which means most
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Happily, *all* students in Key Stage 3 in state schools have to study the British Empire, where a required theme is 'ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745–1901'. There are then optional modules at KS4 in this area, which many schools do. People who (likeZack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation" Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them" "Which means most00:00 - Michael Gove repostedSpectator setting the morning telly debate agenda!Should workers who menstruate be entitled to extra paid leave? Green Party members are set to debate a proposal that would give workers who menstruate up to three additional paid days off each month, 36 days a year, without the need for a doctor's note and without affecting
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It’s always fascinating to hear two privately educated chaps ruminate on their schooldays - but whatever they were taught at Ampleforth and Stockport Grammar, the history national curriculum in our state schools now deals extensively with the British Empire and indeed others…Zack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation" Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them" "Which means most00:00- It was my old friend Rob Jenrick who first made the commitment as Housing SecretaryThis is an appalling idea which will make Britain's cities immeasurably worse. It is worth remembering, however, that it first emerged on the agenda when the Lib Dems secured the support of a large number of Tory MPs for this campaign around five years ago. If I remember rightly,
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Dusting off this excellent piece by @willsolfiac, which dismembers the ridiculous third-worldist proposition that Europe has usually been a backwater, and Asian dominance is the natural state of the world. willsolfiac.com/p/folk-beliefs…Zack Polanski, "When I studied history at school. Tudors, Romans, a bit of WWII. I don't remember talking about empire or colonisation" Historian William Dalrymple, "It is possible to do at A'Levels modules on the British empire, but very few people do them" "Which means most00:00 - Michael Gove reposted
Find this and watch this, is my advice. MADE IN ENGLAND: THE FILMS OF POWELL AND PRESSBURGER (2024) It’s presented, narrated & exec produced by arguably their biggest fan — MARTIN SCORSESE.
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