Do take the time to read Michael Gove’s report A Failed Generation: Educational Inequality Under Labour, out today. Many of it findings have peppered his recent articles and speeches (including his speech on Monday, sadly overshadowed by the lads’ mag row). But gathered together as they are here, they amount to the most coherent – and shocking – denunciation of Labour’s record on education. Here are some of the headline statistics:
— Last year, over 60 per cent of pupils eligible for free school meals did not gain the 3Rs at Key Stage 2.
— 33,909 pupils eligible to receive free school meals did not attain any GCSE grades higher than a D in 2006/07 – 47 per cent of all FSM pupils.
— In the last year, the attainment gap at GCSE between the poorest areas and the wealthiest widened by 15 percentage points – from 28 per cent to 43 per cent.
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