Chris Huhne and ex-wife to face court showdown

telegraph 03-FEB-12

Cruise quickly became nightmare

cnn 16-JAN-12

Gove: Queen deserves £60m yacht for Queen

independent 16-JAN-12

Move To Let Schools Sack Poor Teachers Faster

ananova 13-JAN-12

Teachers reject final Government pension offer

independent 06-JAN-12

Exam boards investigation: 'There's so little content we don't know how it got through'

telegraph 09-DEC-11

Exam boards: Michael Gove orders inquiry over 'cheating' claims

telegraph 08-DEC-11

Public sector strikes: 40% of schools open, full ambulance service, Heathrow running like a dream

dailymail 01-DEC-11

Thousands set for pensions strike

bbc 29-NOV-11

Free schools set for extra £600m

bbc 26-NOV-11

All pupils given chance to learn musical instrument

telegraph 25-NOV-11

EU referendum: David Cameron defends confrontation with backbenchers

telegraph 25-OCT-11

UK risks rift with US by backing Palestinian state

dailymail 17-SEP-11

A strategy of guts and guile may yet save the Lib Dems

telegraph 17-SEP-11

Scottish Tories need new policies and personalities, not a new name

telegraph 05-SEP-11

Scottish Conservative Party could be disbanded because the brand is so toxic north of the border

dailymail 04-SEP-11

The Lib Dems are driving the Coalition off course

telegraph 04-SEP-11

A 4th night of riots in Britain

latimes 10-AUG-11

More strikes 'inevitable' over extra pension payments

telegraph 28-JUL-11

Phone hacking: live

telegraph 27-JUL-11

H.R.H. THE PRINCE MINISTER: Charles accused of meddling after he summons seven senior Ministers to Clarence House in just ten

dailymail 03-JUL-11

Striking workers march across UK

cnn 30-JUN-11

40 new schools to cater for growing population

RTERadio 27-JUN-11

Talks to avert teachers' strike

bbc 27-JUN-11

Gove strike letter angers heads

bbc 24-JUN-11

Ed Balls profile: fearsome consigliere with a toxic reputation

telegraph 11-JUN-11

Archbishop of Canterbury was wrong, David Cameron says

telegraph 09-JUN-11

Schools win right to turn away middle class children

telegraph 27-MAY-11

Clegg vows to veto NHS reforms

independent 08-MAY-11

Head teachers to ballot on strike action over changes to pensions

dailymail 01-MAY-11

Girls' behaviour 'deteriorating' in schools

bbc 18-APR-11

NHS reforms fiasco buries good news

telegraph 03-APR-11

Huge Rally in London Protests Budget Cuts

IHT 26-MAR-11

Students take GCSE-style exam in how to claim the dole

dailymail 03-MAR-11

Michael Gove: more children should be adopted

telegraph 22-FEB-11

White parents to be allowed ethnic minority children under new rules to end ban on mixed race adoptions

dailymail 19-FEB-11

Fury as Labour ¿smears¿ David Cameron after he attacks multiculturalism

dailymail 05-FEB-11

More parents applying to open 'free schools'

telegraph 28-JAN-11

Curriculum review: History and geography lessons go back to basics

dailymail 20-JAN-11

GCSE league tables: private schools attack 'half-baked' rankings

telegraph 12-JAN-11

The return of technical schools: Pupils' choice at 14 will give non-academic children chance to leave learn trades

dailymail 07-JAN-11

Free schools not wanted, NUT says

bbc 03-JAN-11

Only a merger with the Tories will save most Lib Dem MPs

telegraph 02-JAN-11

Literary heavyweights force free books U-turn

telegraph 27-DEC-10

Free book funding 'U-turn' claim

bbc 26-DEC-10

Primary league tables 2010: how to read the Key Stage 2 results

telegraph 14-DEC-10

Councils 'face average 4.4% cut'

bbc 13-DEC-10

No real rise in schools spending

bbc 13-DEC-10

UK schools 'fall behind Estonia and Slovenia', says OECD

telegraph 07-DEC-10

David Cameron signals school sports cuts U-turn

dailymail 01-DEC-10

Miliband in 'people's party' call

bbc 27-NOV-10

Eyewitness: Making a stand

guardian 25-NOV-10

Students march to protest UK tuition

cnn 24-NOV-10

Ex-troops to retrain as teachers in Gove's overhaul

channel4news 24-NOV-10

Weak teachers the biggest problem in schools – Ofsted

guardian 23-NOV-10

BBC: Anti-Semitic Saudi textbooks in use in UK

AP 22-NOV-10

Prime Minister starts China trade mission

telegraph 09-NOV-10

Hu seals $20bn deals with France

aljazeera 04-NOV-10

China become major target of global trade protectionism: WTA

app 03-NOV-10

Students face up to £9,000 fees

bbc 03-NOV-10

Charities chief warns over cuts

bbc 24-OCT-10

Miliband names young rising stars

bbc 10-OCT-10

Ed Miliband to unveil new shadow cabinet

telegraph 08-OCT-10

Cameron urges public to 'pull together' over spending cuts

24dash 06-OCT-10

How families were targeted for painful cuts, long before the child benefit fiasco

dailymail 06-OCT-10

David Cameron: spending review won't take risks with defence

telegraph 03-OCT-10

Unruly behaviour 'harming teachers'

belfasttelegraph 03-OCT-10

Lib Dem conference: Nick Clegg calls on his MPs to keep their faith in the coalition

dailymail 21-SEP-10

UK arrests over 'threat' to Pope

aljazeera 17-SEP-10

School entry shake-up considered

bbc 14-SEP-10

MPs call for new phone-hacking probe

channel4news 06-SEP-10

Hague thanks public for support

bbc 05-SEP-10

Is Coulson the most dangerous man in Britain? (As the NoW might say)

independent 05-SEP-10

Gove defends free school numbers

bbc 05-SEP-10

Exams 'no longer tough enough'

YorkshirePost 04-SEP-10

Academies plan a 'failure', say teachers

independent 01-SEP-10

Coalition will survive even if electoral reform is blocked, insists Nick Clegg

telegraph 20-AUG-10

NI A-level stars shine brightest

bbc 19-AUG-10

One in five children fails to make grade in science, shock results show

dailymail 10-AUG-10

Britain and Pakistan have 'unbreakable' relationship, insist Cameron and Zardari

telegraph 06-AUG-10

US sees opportunity in Pakistani floods

cnn 04-AUG-10

Academy reforms set to become law

bbc 26-JUL-10

Simply not enough

thesun 25-JUL-10

Voters love Dave, but is his playmate about to topple off the seesaw?

dailymail 25-JUL-10

The next Labour leader could be prime minister within a year

telegraph 20-JUL-10

Gove: Academies will prevent UK 'falling behind'

bbc 20-JUL-10

'Outrage' at head teacher's pay

bbc 13-JUL-10

Gove faces school axe challenge

bbc 12-JUL-10

MPs round on 'pipsqueak' Michael Gove as Education over building plan blunder

dailymail 08-JUL-10

Jamie Oliver inspires school meal revival

telegraph 08-JUL-10

Gove to apologise for schools error

channel4news 07-JUL-10

Strike warning over UK jobs

bbc 05-JUL-10

'Massive waste' in public services

bbc 05-JUL-10

School building plan scrapped to save £1bn

channel4news 05-JUL-10

Public sector cuts: axe begins to swing

channel4news 04-JUL-10

Class about face

newsoftheworld 04-JUL-10

Ministers ordered to find 40 per cent cuts as Treasury axe swings

telegraph 03-JUL-10

UK to announce interim cap on non-EU migrants

dailytimesPK 27-JUN-10

Coalition government crackdown on migration

channel4news 26-JUN-10

'Free schools' invitations issued

bbc 18-JUN-10

£2bn Labour projects axed

independent 18-JUN-10

New science GCSE papers rejected

bbc 16-JUN-10

Cameron and Gove ‘failing to back head teachers over poor staff’

sundaytimes 04-JUN-10

Gove: More than 1,000 schools have applied to become academies

24dash 02-JUN-10

Coalition wobbles in bid to keep its balance

sundaytimes 31-MAY-10

Head teachers lukewarm after schools are invited to become academies

sundaytimes 27-MAY-10

Fast-track academies plan 'will cut red-tape for teachers'

24dash 26-MAY-10

Blow-by-blow: State Opening of Parliament as it happened

sundaytimes 25-MAY-10

Leaked Queen’s Speech reveals coalition’s plans for 21 new Bills

thetimes 23-MAY-10

Coalition to use Queen's Speech to set out 21 new parliamentary Bills

dailymail 22-MAY-10

Bring us sunshine

thesun 13-MAY-10

Cameron named PM, builds coalition

cnn 12-MAY-10

Gordon Brown to resign: a very Labour coup

telegraph 11-MAY-10

U.K.’s Brown to quit in bid to keep Labour in power

TorontoStar 10-MAY-10

Tories and Lib Dems to meet again

bbc 09-MAY-10

Hung parliament after UK polls

aljazeera 07-MAY-10

Voting ends in UK general election

cnn 06-MAY-10

Election campaign into final day

bbc 05-MAY-10

Party leaders starting final push

bbc 02-MAY-10

Schools secretary's Sats grilling

channel4news 02-MAY-10

Unelected prime ministers must call a poll within six months: New Cameron vow attacks Brown's legitimacy

dailymail 24-APR-10

Brown says election 'wide open'

bbc 17-APR-10

Focus shifts to UK’s third party

ft 16-APR-10

Expenses scandal MPs to get legal aid

independent 13-APR-10

Brown launches Labour's election manifesto

RTERadio 12-APR-10

Compulsory child sex education law scrapped

thetimes 07-APR-10

General Election 2010: Gordon Brown sets out election pledges

telegraph 27-MAR-10

School admissions: one-in-20 forced into 'unwanted' schools

telegraph 11-MAR-10

Ofsted: more schools failing inspections

telegraph 10-MAR-10

School admissions: best comprehensives using 'covert selection'

telegraph 01-MAR-10

Lord Ashcroft admits he is a non-dom for tax

telegraph 01-MAR-10

Cameron refuses to be blown off track as poll jitters grow

thetimes 01-MAR-10

Conservatives conference launches 'vote for change' election campaign

sundaytimes 27-FEB-10

Burnham seeks new care consensus

bbc 14-FEB-10

Osborne anger over Ashcroft quiz

bbc 14-FEB-10

US actress 'in Tory school talks'

bbc 14-FEB-10

Police investigating Nashville mosque vandalism as hate crime

cnn 12-FEB-10

Minister's Sri Lanka holiday outrages rights campaigners

independent 20-DEC-09

Nine million face paedophile checks despite Ed Balls U-turn

telegraph 14-DEC-09

Vetting scheme to be watered down

bbc 13-DEC-09

Parents enticed by Tory plan for 'free schools'

guardian 13-DEC-09

Cameron's claim dismissed

TheScotsman 12-DEC-09

MPs milked expenses system for £10 million in months before reforms

telegraph 10-DEC-09

David Cameron: Gordon Brown 'spiteful' over attacks on Eton background

thetimes 06-DEC-09

£113,000 is handed to 'terror schools'

thesun 26-NOV-09

Women's rights: why too much of a good thing is bad for you

thetimes 21-NOV-09

Teachers can start their own schools under a Tory government

thetimes 13-NOV-09

Niel McLean: Technology can bridge the gap between parents and schools

independent 05-NOV-09

State schools prevented from sitting IGCSE

sundaytimes 05-NOV-09

[said:]: The weaknesses in our current system were laid bare by Prof Wolf's incisive and far-reaching review. The changes we are making will take time, but will transform the lives of young people.

bbc 31-JAN-12

[ noted]: The weaknesses in our current system were laid bare by Professor Wolf's incisive and far-reaching review,

egovmonitor 31-JAN-12

[said:]: The weaknesses in our current system were laid bare by Professor Wolf's incisive and far-reaching review. The changes we are making will take time but will transform the lives of young people.

icWales 31-JAN-12

[said:]: The weaknesses in our current system were laid bare by Professor Wolf's incisive and far-reaching review.

ananova 31-JAN-12

[ said]: It's a pity that the Labour party hasn't spoken out against this Trot campaign,

bbc 31-JAN-12

[said:]: The changes we are making will take time but will transform the lives of young people.

telegraph 31-JAN-12

[said:]: It is unbelievable to attack any politician for funding the protection of Jewish children. It is even more extraordinary and frankly offensive to do it on Holocaust Memorial Day.

guardian 27-JAN-12

[said:]: Labour dumbed down exams and built a dishonest league table system that encouraged millions of children to do courses of little or no value.

telegraph 26-JAN-12

[acknowledged that:]: we should be clear that no public funding is available for the project, as this would not be appropriate in the current financial climate.

IHT 20-JAN-12

[said:]: It's a thing of beauty, and it's also an incredibly important historical artefact. It has helped shape and define the English language and is one of the keystones of our shared culture. And it is a work that has had international significance

mailonsunday 18-JAN-12

[-said]: Britain's most impressive and responsible companies

bbc 18-JAN-12

[wrote:]: In spite, and perhaps because of, the austere times, the celebration should go beyond those of previous jubilees and mark the greater achievement that the diamond anniversary represents.

sundaymail 18-JAN-12

[-suggested]: should go beyond . . . previous jubilees.

montrealgazette 18-JAN-12

[suggested:]: a gift from the nation to Her Majesty . . . a royal yacht

montrealgazette 18-JAN-12

[-said]: Change is coming. And to those who want to get in the way, I have just two words: hands off.

guardian 17-JAN-12

[said:]: As a country with a long tradition of monarchy, we should be proud to honour our Queen in this way.

independent 17-JAN-12

[wrote:]: In spite, and perhaps because of the austere times, the celebration should go beyond those of previous jubilees and mark the greater achievement that the diamond anniversary represents.

belfasttelegraph 16-JAN-12

[-wrote]: My suggestion would be a gift from the nation to her majesty, thinking about David Willetts's excellent suggestion of a royal yacht, and something tangible to commemorate this momentous occasion,

irishsun 16-JAN-12

[-said]: In spite, and perhaps because of, the austere times, the celebration should go beyond those of previous jubilees and mark the greater achievement that the diamond anniversary represents,

upi 16-JAN-12

[said:]: The letter which I wrote to the Prime Minister on September 12 clearly stated that I agree of course the project for a royal yacht, the future ship project for the 21st century, was one - and I was quite clear in my letter - where no public funding should be provided.

belfasttelegraph 16-JAN-12

[says:]: The diamond jubilee must not be overshadowed by the Olympic Games, but form an integral part of this great year for our country.

guardian 15-JAN-12

[said:]: grade inflation

express 15-JAN-12

[said:]: You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth.

guardian 13-JAN-12

[said:]: Schools need to be able to dismiss more quickly those teachers who, despite best efforts, do not perform to the expected standard. Future employers also need to know more about the strengths and weaknesses of teachers they are potentially employing. Nobody benefits when poor teaching is tolerated. It puts pressure on other teachers and undermines children's education.

express 13-JAN-12

[said:]: Schools need to be able to dismiss more quickly those teachers who, despite best efforts, do not perform to the expected standard.

irishsun 13-JAN-12

[-has suggested]: in the firing line

belfasttelegraph 13-JAN-12

[-believes that]: By 16, they could have an understanding of formal logic previously covered only in university courses and be writing their own apps for smartphones.

france24 11-JAN-12

[said:]: There is a huge opportunity for those people who have served their country in uniform to serve their country in our schools.

telegraph 11-JAN-12

[-added]: If you're poor, if you're Turkish, if you're Somali, then we don't expect you to succeed. You will always be second class and it's no surprise your schools are second class

egovmonitor 04-JAN-12

[said:]: larger scale reform

thesun 22-DEC-11

[warned that:]: larger-scale reform

themirror 21-DEC-11

[ says]: If our schools, and young people, are to become internationally competitive again we must learn from the best in the world,

bbc 19-DEC-11

[ said]: The longer timescale will allow for further debate with everyone interested in creating a genuinely world-class education system,

bbc 19-DEC-11

[said:]: I think one of the things about the Telegraph investigation is that it draws attention to the worst examples of a culture which has worked against excellence, which has been grotesquely unfair to students, because it means that their time has been taken up learning exam technique and not subjects.

dailymail 10-DEC-11

[promises:]: nothing is off the table

telegraph 09-DEC-11

[says:]: In our view the chief risk of market failure with qualifications, is in relation to standards - the so-called

bbc 08-DEC-11

[said:]: As I've always maintained, it is crucial our exams hold their own with the best in the world. We'll take whatever action is necessary to restore faith in our exam system. Nothing is off the table.

guardian 08-DEC-11

[said:]: It's important that collectively we recognise that exam boards and awarding bodies, in the natural and healthy desire to be the best as an exam board, don't succumb to the commercial temptation to elbow others out of the way, by saying to schools and to others

independent 08-DEC-11

[said:]: As I have always maintained, it is crucial our exams hold their own with the best in the world.

independent 08-DEC-11

[said:]: As I have always maintained, it is crucial our exams hold their own with the best in the world. We will take whatever action is necessary to restore faith in our exam system. Nothing is off the table.

icWales 08-DEC-11

[-said]: They want scenes of industrial strife on our TV screens. They want to make economic recovery harder — they want to provide a platform for confrontation just when we all need to pull together,

AP 29-NOV-11

[said:]: One of my concerns is that you do not have to give notice directly to your employer that you will go on strike. You need simply to inform them on the day. Contingency planning is made more difficult because of that.

guardian 29-NOV-11

[-warned that]: Many others didn't. They never worked again in the profession they loved. And the deal we were offered before the strike never improved.

guardian 29-NOV-11

[-said that]: In comparison to the UK average, figures for teachers show even greater life expectancy. And between 2004 and 2010 the number of teachers working beyond 60 increased from 9,909 to 31,572.

guardian 29-NOV-11

[-said]: They want scenes of industrial strife on our TV screens. They want to make economic recovery harder they want to provide a platform for confrontation just when we all need to pull together,

nzherald 29-NOV-11

[has criticised:]: hardliners, militants

telegraph 29-NOV-11

[-warned that]: So today I want to appeal directly to teachers – and other public sector workers – please, even now, think again.

guardian 28-NOV-11

[said:]: I do not hang that badge around the necks of any teaching union leader.

independent 28-NOV-11

[said:]: You have only got to look at the words of Len McCluskey in the Guardian today, consider the conduct of Mark Serwotka throughout this dispute or look at the political record of Mr Andrew Murray, who is a lead official in Unite, to recognise that

independent 28-NOV-11

[-said]: hardliners

independent 28-NOV-11

[said:]: There is an undeniable strain of loucheness in the South Wales air, and one that I think is even more pronounced if one goes a little farther west, to the city that even more than Cardiff is Britain’s most Mediterranean – Swansea.

icWales 27-NOV-11

[-said]: They are being asked to put confectionery and other snacks back, especially at mid-morning. It is the return of the sausage roll to schools.

javno 26-NOV-11

[wrote:]: I would like to reassure you we have no reason to believe that academies will not provide healthy balanced meals which meet current nutritional standards.

independent 26-NOV-11

[-said]: As part of the broader freedoms available to academies, I trust the professionals to act in the best interests of their pupils,

javno 26-NOV-11

[said:]: All pupils should have the opportunity to enjoy and play music. However, for far too long, music education has been patchy across the country.

telegraph 25-NOV-11

[wrote:]: I noted your concerns about academies not being required to comply with the nutritional standards for school food.

belfasttelegraph 25-NOV-11

[said:]: I think that such a concentration of so many students on the history of America over one 50-year period and Germany over one 13-year period is clearly wrong. We need to ensure our GCSEs and national curriculum are better aligned and critically they're better aligned so that our students have a better understanding of the linear narrative of British history and Britain's impact on the world and the world's impact on Britain.

guardian 24-NOV-11

[said:]: Other than their coursework, the only guaranteed bit of British history this 96% can study is as part of the

guardian 24-NOV-11

[-said that]: I'm an unashamed and unapologetic advocate for the central role of history in our curriculum. Which is why I'm genuinely worried that – despite the best efforts of brilliant history teachers, gifted academics and the television and publishing executives who've helped to popularise history – our curriculum and examinations system mean that children thirsting to know more about our past leave school woefully undernourished.

guardian 24-NOV-11

[said:]: Boris is right - London has many great schools but we must all do more to improve standards - especially for children from poorer homes. I know how passionate the Mayor is about making opportunity more equal. And I know that he wants every penny we spend on education used as efficiently as possible - devoted to great teaching. That's why I am so enthusiastic about this review and want to work with Boris so we can ensure every school in London is as good as the best.

egovmonitor 10-NOV-11

[said:]: Negotiation is going on at the moment. People don’t go into teaching for the money but it matters and we’ve got to be fair to people.

icWales 09-NOV-11

[said:]: When fines are imposed [for truancy] they are often reduced to take account of an adult's expenditure on satellite TV, alcohol and cigarettes. And many appear to shrug off fines and avoid existing sanctions, refusing to take responsibility for their actions. So we need to review the sanctions schools , police, the courts, and the government, have available.

guardian 08-NOV-11

[says:]: Many of our original fears have been confirmed by the evaluation report and the undersigned remain deeply concerned about the imposition of this test on all schools in England.

express 28-OCT-11

[ said]: We are already winning powers back - we need to win more and that process will require careful negotiation,

belfasttelegraph 25-OCT-11

[replied:]: We are working now. The government is working now.

guardian 25-OCT-11

[-admitted that]: There were a number of our colleagues who felt the motion last night provided a means to do so. I didn't agree with them, but I respect the passion with which they put their case.

guardian 25-OCT-11

[said:]: I'd like to see that change in this parliament.

guardian 25-OCT-11

[said:]: He is a great man. The Times and The Sunday Times would not exist if he had not saved them. His investment in Sky has been responsible for helping Premiership football to survive in this country.

telegraph 04-OCT-11

[says:]: If we pull all the levers, change teacher training, help training schools to support others to go down this path, get schools that have language potential to take over under-performing schools, and we move the curriculum review in the right direction, then we can move towards the goal.

guardian 04-OCT-11

[said:]: we won't

guardian 03-OCT-11

[says that:]: almost every other advanced country teaches children a foreign language from the age of five

guardian 03-OCT-11

[said:]: I admire Nick Clegg hugely.

independent 03-OCT-11

[said:]: We want all families to be able to choose the right school for their child.

telegraph 03-OCT-11

[-also says]: If we pull all the levers, change teacher training, help training schools to support others to go down this path, get schools that have language potential to take over under-performing schools, and we move the curriculum review in the right direction, then we can move towards the goal. The number of pupils sitting a language GCSE plummeted from 444,700 in the summer of 1998 to 273,000 in 2010. Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to broad

guardian 30-SEP-11

[-says]: Liberal Democratia is a foreign country,

guardian 30-SEP-11

[also says:]: One of the problems we have is children are not in school long enough in the day and during the year.

guardian 30-SEP-11

[-says]: One of the problems we have had in education, and as a country, is that we have been too insular for too long.

guardian 30-SEP-11

[said:]: The email quoted by the FT was sent by Mr Cummings to Conservative Party advisers.

bbc 20-SEP-11

[said:]: The email quoted by the FT was sent by Mr Cummings to Conservative party advisers. The email did not refer to Department for Education official business but to Conservative party business only.

guardian 20-SEP-11

[added:]: Parents and students know we have to give teachers more authority.

thesun 16-SEP-11

[said:]: The right every child deserves to be taught properly is currently undermined by the twisting of rights by a minority who need to be taught an unambiguous lesson in who is boss.

bbc 16-SEP-11

[said:]: Parents and students know we have to give teachers more authority. Strong discipline is vital for effective teaching.

icWales 16-SEP-11

[said:]: It is a worry to me that so many schools are still judged as

bbc 15-SEP-11

[argues that:]: children are being failed by fundamental flaws in our education system

guardian 13-SEP-11

[said:]: I've been crystal clear we should not have schools set up by extremists whether they're Christian fundamentalists, Islamic fundamentalists or any other sort of outrageous and beyond-the-pale organisation.

irishsun 06-SEP-11

[-told]: And, I should add, not just with the free schools,

irishsun 06-SEP-11

[ said]: We have been working with people who have been in the Intelligence Services in order to ensure that there is no-one from the wrong sort of background involved in education,

irishsun 06-SEP-11

[-pointed out that]: I'm a pragmatist, not an ideologue. We don't need to have profit-making organisations involved at the moment.

guardian 05-SEP-11

[said:]: [Profit-making] has been at the back of people's minds but Cameron gave Clegg a veto and he's exercised it. However on the idea that Clegg is insisting that the next wave of free schools have to be in areas of need, that is already the case. The process is set up already for the next wave and we're not going to start it all over again and actually it will be the case that many of the next free schools are in areas of deprivation anyway.

guardian 05-SEP-11

[said:]: We should allow the party in Scotland to determine its own destiny.

express 05-SEP-11

[said:]: One of the things I've learnt as a politician from Scotland but representing an English constituency is that the reality of devolution means that you should allow the party in Scotland to determine its own destiny.

TheScotsman 05-SEP-11

[added:]: Well we're in a coalition now and we're working to ensure that we get more free schools.

icWales 05-SEP-11

[added:]: Let me be crystal clear. If any parent now hears a school say, ‘Sorry, we can’t physically touch the students’, then that school is wrong. Plain wrong. The rules of the game have changed.

express 02-SEP-11

[said:]: It is clear we need to be tougher on inadequate parents.

independent 02-SEP-11

[-said]: To investigate where the looters came from is not to make excuses because of background. It is to shine a light on failures that originated in poor policy, skewed priorities, and the deliberate undermining of legitimate authority.

guardian 01-SEP-11

[-said]: , then that school is wrong. Plain wrong. The rules of the game have changed.

guardian 01-SEP-11

[said:]: We still, every year allow thousands more children to join an educational underclass - they are the lost souls our school system has failed.

bbc 01-SEP-11

[-said]: Thanks to the love of my adoptive mother and father, and the education I enjoyed, I was given amazing opportunities. So I know just how much the right parenting, the right values at home, and the right sort of school matter in determining a child's fate.

guardian 01-SEP-11

[said:]: Subjects such as physics, chemistry, history, geography, French and German give students the opportunity to succeed in every field. The numbers studying a proper range of rigorous subjects has been in decline. Now, thanks to our English Bacc, that has changed.

bbc 31-AUG-11

Watson [ wrote]: When school budgets are being slashed, parents will be wondering how Gove came even to suggest this idea,

ibtimes 16-JAN-12

Watson [said:]: Michael Gove has shown he is out of touch with this proposal. When school budgets are being slashed, parents will be wondering how Gove came even to suggest this idea.This is not the time to spend £60million on a yacht.

themirror 16-JAN-12

Tom Watson [said:]: We're all looking forward to the diamond jubilee. The significance of the occasion should be celebrated across the country. But Michael Gove has shown he is out of touch with this proposal.

belfasttelegraph 16-JAN-12

Oliver [-told]: The bit of work that we did which is law was a good bit of work for any government. So to erode it, which is essentially what Mr. Gove is doing -- his view is we let schools do what they want,

javno 26-NOV-11

Oliver [ says]: I'm very worried. I've had a couple of very cordial, interesting meetings with the secretary of state for education and although I would love to believe that Mr Gove has school food high on his agenda, I've not heard anything so far worth celebrating,

guardian 24-OCT-11

Burnham [says:]: An email has surfaced from Dominic Cummings, apparently sent nine months before he was appointed as Michael Gove's special adviser, which recommends

guardian 31-AUG-11

Andy Burnham [said:]: It reveals a lot about Michael Gove's priorities that he has found time to meet with News Corp executives 21 times since he became Education Secretary but in his first seven months in the job he didn't manage to visit a single sixth-form college, further education college or special school.

independent 28-JUL-11

Andy Burnham [said:]: I congratulate the committee for saying clearly and forcefully what the rest of the education world has been thinking. 'It is quite simply unforgivable to introduce a change which affects millions of young lives, without first conducting a proper process of consultation. 'Of course, we have been here before with this Secretary of State. When will Mr Gove learn his lesson and stop making policy on the hoof designed to appeal to headline-writers?

dailymail 28-JUL-11

Miliband [said:]: Strikes are a sign of failure on both sides and Thursday's industrial action is a mistake ... I understand why teachers are so angry with the Government. But I urge them to think about whether causing disruption in the classroom will help people understand their arguments. The scale of the strike action has become clearer this morning as last night 3,206 schools had told authorities that they would be closed. 2,206 schools have told their authorities that they will be partially closed but some schools have

ibtimes 29-JUN-11

Andy Burnham [said:]: This is the third time in a year that Michael Gove has had to U-turn under the threat of legal action.

icWales 12-JUN-11

Andy Burnham [said:]: This is the third time in a year that Michael Gove has had to U-turn under the threat of legal action. 'And the reason that it keeps happening is that he is railroading his policies through without proper consultation, without listening to parents, to teachers, to local councillors.

mailonsunday 11-JUN-11

Andy Burnham [said:]: Michael Gove promised a better scheme for the poorest young people but now his own department says it is open to discrimination.

bbc 03-MAY-11

Ferguson [says:]: Clearly, all last year's talk by Michael Gove, Simon Schama, myself and others about the urgent need for reform was mere alarmism, doubtless actuated by some sinister political motive.

guardian 29-MAR-11

Burnham [said:]: We urgently now need an independent inquiry into Michael Gove's handling of this whole sorry saga. All relevant paperwork should be disclosed so that people can see what advice was given by civil servants and how these decisions were taken.

bbc 14-FEB-11

Andy Burnham [said:]: We urgently need an independent inquiry into Michael Gove's handling of this whole sorry saga.

TheScotsman 12-FEB-11

Andy Burnham [said:]: This ruling is a victory for all the communities and children betrayed by Michael Gove. 'They deserve no less than a full apology from him today and a commitment to act quickly on the court's finding. 'The ruling calls into question every school building scheme cut by Michael Gove and is a damning verdict on his competence as a Minister. 'He must tell us today how much public money he has spent trying to defend his botched and unfair decisions.

mailonsunday 11-FEB-11

Andy Burnham [said:]: This ruling is a victory for all the communities and children betrayed by Michael Gove.

24dash 11-FEB-11

Burnham [ said]: School building and repair is in complete chaos thanks to Mr Gove. He condemns many children to crumbling classrooms and Portakabins whilst waving his cheque book to try to force through more free schools, which will be irrelevant for the majority of parents,

guardian 11-FEB-11

Burnham [-writes]: MPs might usefully reflect ... whether it's ever healthy to have so much power vested in one person. Parliament can put the brakes on Mr Gove and stop him from taking a huge gamble with the life chances of our children,

guardian 08-FEB-11