I am involved ia little in politics and have my thoughts on how education should be managed and it is having professional educators like yourself, getting together on a regional/national policy and strategy forum that puts together an education policy document that is reviewed/discussed by the health department, who then set up effective audit/monitoring to ensure that the policies/standards agreed upon are maintained across the country. The same for policing/social care/health care.
I don't give a damn what Michael Gove personally thinks about education, I want to know what professionals think, I want to see professionals who have worked in the industry making decisions on how best to move forward and improve quality and maintain or improve standards.
Is that such a crazy idea for a politician, to take good advice from experts.
Gove was so busy trying to tell everyone what he wanted he ignored the people telling him what was needed, what level of ignorance/arrogance does it take to ignore experts and just do your own thing, I thought this man was educated, this sort of stuff should be common sense, but for politicians with their own personal political agendas common sense seems to be in very short supply. That is why he failed he my eyes, he didn't use common sense but pursued a personal political agenda regardless of whether it was right for the country, people say he cared passionately about children, not as much as he cares about his own career obviously.