http://www.michaelgove.com News From Michael Gove MP Recent headlines from Michael Gove MP en-gb Education and Skills Bill: Admission Arrangements Michael Gove calls on the Government to put less emphasis on manipulating access to good school places and more on increasing the number of good schools in the first place. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=1184 Making Opportunity More Equal Michael Gove gives a speech to think tank, Centre Forum... http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=1068 Topical Question Michael Gove challenges the Secretary of State over his previous allegations that a disproportionate number of faith schools were in breach of the admission code by demanding money for places. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=1042 Children, Schools and Families: Topical Questions Michael Gove challenges the Government to be more rigorous in policing the growth of separatist Islamism in education in this country. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=923 Education and Skills Bill (Second Reading) Michael Gove welcomes the Government's intentions to encourage participation in education, but does not believe compulsion is the way to achieve it. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=887 Education: International Comparisons Michael Gove condemns falling standards in literacy and the apparent decision by the Government that one in six children leaving primary school without being able to read properly is acceptable. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=847 Children's Plan Michael Gove raises his concern that British children are falling behind in international league tables. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=809 Schools Reform Michael Gove leads an Opposition Day debate on Schools Reform. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=781 Michael Gove launches action plan for schools to raise standards Michael Gove sets out plans to tackle educational under-achievement in the immediate term through policies such as more teaching by ability and giving teachers more power. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=777 Queen's Speech Debate: The Economy and Pensions Michael Gove questions the Chancellor's credentials as a 'conviction politician'. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=772 Queen's Speech Debate - Health and Education Michael Gove winds up the debate on the Education aspects of the Queen's Speech on behalf of the Conservatives. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=771 Topical Questions: Guaranteed minimum funding for schools Michael Gove challenges the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families on the loss of freedom over the curriculum by academies. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=769 Government's "badly thought out" schools plan Michael Gove criticizes the Government's plan to raise the school leaving age to 18. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=767 Crackdown on failing schools no more believable than crackdown on illegal immigration Shadow Children's Secretary Michael Gove comments on Gordon Brown's speech on education today. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=764 Department for Children, Schools and Families Michael Gove moves a motion calling for stronger leadership in the Department to ensure that children leave primary school having reached the required standard of reading, writing and arithmetic. http://www.michaelgove.com/search/article.php?id=751