«Breaking News» I'd end private schools, says former education minister Michael Gove

Michael Gove has said he wants state schools to become so good that educating a child privately will become an ‘eccentric choice’.

The former education secretary said he hopes in future most people will not even consider sending their child to an independent school.

During his time in the Department for Education, he spearheaded a series of radical reforms to raise standards and toughen up qualifications.

This included a return to traditional forms of learning, such as phonics and times tables tests for young children and more challenging content for older ones.

Former education secretary Michael Gove has said he wants state schools to become so good that people will not even consider sending their child to an independent school

At the time, he faced a backlash from the Left, but Mr Gove stressed it was needed to get poorer pupils up to the same standard as their privately-educated peers.

And yesterday, in an interview with the Evening Standard, he said the long-term goal was to make state schools so good that no-one will want to send their child privately.

He said: ‘I would have hoped we would have been able to make sending your children to a private school, as it is in Europe, an increasingly eccentric choice.’

Asked if he wanted to obliterate the private sector ‘by stealth’, he replied ‘well, yes’.

However the former education secretary, who was educated at private school Robert Gordon’s College in Aberdeen, has sent his own children to the cream of London's state school's. 

In 2016, the former education secretary sent his 11-year-old son William to the 'Eton of comprehensives' Holland Park School in Kensington, an institution known for its impressive academic results, despite their being at least seven closer state secondary schools to him.

Two years earlier Mr Gove sent his daughter Beatrice to the Grey Coat Hospital School in Westminster.

Both schools are praised in Tatler's top 20 state secondary schools guide.  

During his interview Mr Gove also said fee-paying schools are helping their comprehensive counterparts reach this goal, through providing mentoring and use of facilities.

‘There are ways in which independent schools are proving that they can do more to help the state sector, and that’s a good thing,’ he added.

In his wide-ranging interview, Brexiteer Mr Gove also suggested that Britons are now more relaxed about high immigration because of Brexit.

His remarks follow official figures earlier this week showing a 15-year high in net immigration from outside the EU.

The former education secretary has spearheaded a series of radical reforms to raise standards and toughen up qualifications

Asked if Vote Leave misled voters in the 2016 referendum into thinking immigration would fall after Brexit, he said people had wanted ‘democratic control’ over numbers.

‘The second thing is we’ve seen public attitudes towards migration change,’ he added.

‘Now that people know that we have democratic control, actually there’s been a greater degree of acceptance of migration overall.’

The Environment Secretary said people were ‘more tolerant’ in countries like Australia and Canada, where governments could set numbers.

Asked where that left Theresa May’s target to cut immigration to the tens of thousands, he said voters could use their vote at general elections to punish a government they disagreed with.

Mr Gove admitted that when he decided to back the Leave campaign in 2016 he thought it would lose.

He said: ‘My own view was that actually I didn’t think we would win the referendum, I didn’t think we would leave, although I’m glad that was the result.’

He confirmed he urged David Cameron strongly not to hold a referendum, as it would ‘create divisions’.

‘I remember saying at the time... that I didn’t think that it was a good idea,’ he said. 

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Main photo article Michael Gove has said he wants state schools to become so good that educating a child privately will become an ‘eccentric choice’.
The former education secretary said he hopes in future most people will not even consider sending their child to an independent school.
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