Mike Finn

The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition Mike Finn

Marc Notes: Michael Gove was, without question, a pivotal figure in British educational reform. The four years he was Secretary of State for Education and the five years the coalition was in office heralded a new era for school structures, examination systems, curricula design and content, and the reassertion of the purportedly 'traditional' values of 'academic' education. The contributors to this volume offer an early assessment of his impact on the British educational landscape. Review Quotes: "This excellent collection tells us a great deal about government policy-making generally, as well as the specific educational legacy of Michael Gove and the Coalition Government. As someone who was directly involved in one set of reforms, I was intrigued by how much I had forgotten, or never known, about the detail of policy-making and implementation. But I was also deeply impressed by the way in which the authors, from very different perspectives, leave one with a much clearer understanding of how education policy has evolved in England; of major underlying shifts, many of which started well before 2010; and of how much, or little, future governments are likely to change direction. Highly recommended!" - Professor Alison Wolf CBE, Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Management, King's College London, author of "Does Education Matter?""This timely collection offers an unrivalled range of perspectives on one of the most important Education ministers of the modern era." - Sir Anthony Seldon, Master of Wellington College and Fellow of King's College London, author of "Schools United" Table of Contents: Introduction: The Gove Ascendancy - Michael Gove as Secretary of State for Education; Mike Finn1. The Gove Legacy in State Education; Brian Lightman2. The Gove Legacy in Independent Schools: The Making and Unmaking of a Supreme Goviet; Tim Hands3. The Gove Legacy in the Curriculum: The Case of History; Katharine Burn4. The Gove Legacy: Where Policy Meets the Pupil; Mick Waters5. Education Beyond the Gove Legacy: The Case of Higher Education; Roger Brown5b. Education Beyond the Gove Legacy: The Case of Higher Education (2): Ideology in Action; Mike Finn6. Opening Doors or Narrowing Opportunities?: The Coalition's Approach to Widening Participation, Social Mobility and Social Justice; Konstanze Spohrer7. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015; Jonathan Simons7b. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015 (2): Skills and accountability; Steve Besley7c. The Gove Legacy and the Politics of Education after 2015 (3): Can the legacy endure?; Louis CoffaitConclusion: The Gove Legacy in Education; Mike FinnBiographical Note: Mike Finn is Director of the Centre for Education Policy Analysis and Lecturer in the History of Education at Liverpool Hope University, UK. The recipient of the 2001 Palgrave/THE Humanities and Social Sciences Writing Prize, he has held Fellowships at both Oxford and Cambridge and in 2002-2003 was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University.

Contributor Bio:  Finn, Mike Dr Mike Finn is Director of the Centre for Education Policy and Lecturer in the History of Education at Liverpool Hope University. He has taught history and politics extensively in universities, including as a Research Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and as a Bye-Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 2006 he was Head of Research and political speechwriter to the Leader of the Liberal Democrats during the transition from Charles Kennedy to Ming Campbell. He observed Nick Clegg and many of the future Liberal Democrat ministerial team at close quarters. In 2001 he won the Palgrave/Times Higher Education Humanities and Social Sciences writing prize. A former Kennedy Scholar at Harvard University, he is the editor of The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition (2015).