Exclusive: A-level courses scrapped after Michael Gove cuts £100m from sixth-form colleges
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Clifford Armion
le 02/03/2014
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Michael Gove will be embroiled in a fresh controversy on Monday as it emerges that his department’s savage spending cuts have forced sixth-form colleges to scrap A-level courses in core subjects such as languages and maths, regarded by the Government as crucial to the future of Britain’s economy.It comes after a weekend in which the Conservative Education Secretary was involved in a furious row with his Coalition colleagues over his decision to dismiss Labour’s Baroness Sally Morgan from her post as chair of Ofsted, the education standards watchdog. The Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats described the move as an attempt to “politicise something that should be kept out of politics”.
In research seen by The Independent, leaders of the country’s sixth-form colleges claim they have lost more than £100 million in funding over the past three years, with the result that courses in core A-level subjects - whose importance Mr Gove has been anxious to champion - are being axed.
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"Exclusive: A-level courses scrapped after Michael Gove cuts £100m from sixth-form colleges ", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), mars 2014. Consulté le 23/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/exclusive-a-level-courses-scrapped-after-michael-gove-cuts-100m-from-sixth-form-colleges-