Conservative conference: Gove spells out next step on his agenda for schools
Guardian Education Secretary talks on its proposals for the teaching of modern languages ??and denies free schools are elitist
A group of Italian parliamentarians should have been a little surprised last week when a visitor with a Scottish accent hesitated to quote Dante in his native language.
"I am a very poor linguist, but I feel very lucky that my wife spoke excellent French, Italian and Spanish," Education Secretary Michael Gove said he remembers his trip in Rome. "I was able, with your help, to meet a group of Italian parliamentarians cited the arrest of the Italian Dante."
Gove, who spoke with the tutor before the conservative conference in Manchester, expected that children in England have the opportunity he did not like the way he moves to s' ensure that the modern languages ??taught at the age of five.
"Understanding a modern foreign language helps you understand English," he said. "The process of becoming fluent in a foreign language improves fluency and understanding of grammar, sentence structure syntax, verbal precision. There is no one who speaks in a foreign language a user can not control his own language. "
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Defender marks a return to the traditional teaching of Gove, in the eyes of conservatives, as a courageous reformer wants to ensure that materials are returned to the center of the curriculum. To work - and some Liberal Democrats - Gove is deliberately elitist who wants to transform schools into pale versions of their former Oxford college
The secretary of education has been severely criticized last year after being precipitated by the law to build the program Tony Blair of the academy to allow the creation of new independent schools. In recent weeks, 24 schools have opened across England, West Sussex, Lancashire.
Workdenounced schools elitists and without benefit claims that the "aggressive parents."
Reviewthis quarter is not surprising to Gove. But Nick Clegg was alarmed when expressed concern in a recent speech to whether schools are aimed at disadvantaged areas. Deputy Prime Minister also criticized the refusal to rule Gove allow schools without running in the future at a profit.
Gove insists new schools have sprung up not only in privileged areas, though he admits are not taught in the opening. "The first group of independent schools, by definition, is created by people who want to do. I can not manage. Such is the nature of it.
"The most surprising was that two thirds of schools are set free in the constituencies represented by Labour MPs. More than half [of free schools] are within 30% of most deprived areas. So they are the bastions. high bourgeois privilege There is a mix, but with a bias towards deprived areas. It will be the same for the next wave of free schools. You will see a strong bias towards deprived areas, but schools are not here and there, because they offer something different, you must let go "(This is controversial. A report in The Guardian in September to find the reverse:. the first 24 free schools are biased to the white middle class and working families are under-represented)
Gove, a close ally of David Cameron, who was an enthusiastic supporter of the coalition, said he understands why the Liberal Democrats need to "show some leg," after his defeat in May .
However, the attack is feared that Clegg could give the impression that the Conservatives have no interest in promoting social justice. "The only thing that worries me is that people can infer from [his speech], that the Ministry of Education and his ministers were not interested in social justice ... do not think that He intends to Nick Clegg. But I think some people might have deduced from it:. well, the conservative Liberal Democrats need to stay focused in this area
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