My heart soared when, talking on the phone to Michael Gove earlier in the week, he mentioned that he was in Stockholm. Michael Gove plans to allow for the creation of 3,000 schools "Please tell me that you're there to study their education system, Michael." "Yes, we've been looking at schools all week". The Conservative Party's benign interest in Swedish schools is arguably the sing...

Michael Gove, the education secretary, is set to postpone plans to rebuild more than 700 schools across Conservative constituencies.

Michael Gove's plan for teacher training in the Education White Paper will take children back to dumbed-down basics that fail to stimulate and engage young minds or motivate them to learn, and all for the sake of installing right-wing ideology in schools. He wants to move teacher-training out of higher-education institutions and into schools, despite the fact that university-based teacher tra...

From today’s Observer: Nick Clegg has thwarted plans by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to allow the new generation of “free schools” to make profits in the state sector after a massive ideological battle over the coalition’s education policy… Clegg’s aides say he has also persuaded Gove to amend the admissions code from 2013 to

Much was made at the Conservative conference of the need for a wider range of schools so there is more parent and pupil choice in education. Michael Gove’s love affair with his Swedish model has been long and very public. I am all

Education Secretary Michael Gove refutes reports he has plans to allow for-profit free schools.

The vested interests are up in arms about Conservative plans to improve education by freeing good performing primary schools. Catch a load of the NASWT's Chris Keates: "Having already announced academies will be the norm for secondary schools, this proposal for primary schools completes the Tories' blueprint for the dismantling of state education.There is no evidence that severing the li...

Scottish Secretary Michael Moore is to appear before MSPs to answer questions about devolving more powers to Scotland.

Ed Balls, Labour's Schools Secretary responding to comments from the Conservative leader of Kent County Council and Conservative Cabinet Member for schools in Hampshire said: "These leading Conservative councillors with real experience of education have let the cat out of the bag and confirmed what we and educational experts have been saying all along. "The only way David Cameron and Michael ...

• Government plans include sex education for all pupils • Catholic schools welcome clause on teaching 'values' Sex education is to be made compulsory in all state schools in England but faith schools will also be free to preach against sex outside marriage and homosexuality, under government proposals. The plans to make personal, social and health education (PSHE) compulsory fr...