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

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

Invigorating, that's probably the best word for Policy Exchange's event on free schools this morning. Right from Sir Michael Wilshaw's opening address — which set out the reasons why he, as headteacher of Mossbourne Academy, is optimistic about education reform — to Michael Gove's longer, more involved speech, this was all about celebrating and promoting the new fre...

Matt Willey, Shadow Schools Minister Michael Gove's opponent, has criticised his policy of setting up "free schools" alongside state schools in Surrey. "We have an example in Camberley of what happens when private organisations are not able to achieve satisfactory standards in the schools they take over," says Mr Willey. "Management of France Hill was given to 3 Es CTC in order to improve the...

Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, has said the Government has no "ideological objection" to firms making profits from his new academies and free schools.

Michael Gove is giving a big speech tomorrow on free schools amid evidence that the policy is beginning to gather momentum. The papers report today that there have been 281 applications to set up free schools this month alone.   One of the best known of these planned free schools is the one being set up Tony Blair’s former strategist Peter Hyman. Ever since The Spectator revealed back i...

Telegraph View Education Secretary Michael Gove is passionate advocate of better schools and should be allowed to see the job through.

Andrew Adonis, Labour's Schools Minister, responding to Michael Gove's speech at Tory party conference, said: "Michael Gove calls for 'straight talk' but it's time the Tories came clean about the true cost of their Swedish model. He needs to tell us what he would cut to pay for these 5,000 schools. Until he can answer this question, their "free" schools are just fantasy sc...

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...

Last week, the FT revealed that Michael Gove was planning to introduce direct funding of schools, a move that weaken local authorities’ grip on education funding. Theoretically, it is a central component of Gove’s plan to free schools from local authorities’ bureaucratic control in a bid to improve standards by creating a quasi-market. It was, as Gove’s aides have been at p...