{"id":2566,"date":"2012-10-23T16:47:16","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2012-10-23T16:47:16","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T15:47:16","slug":"a-good-word-for-mr-gove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2012\/10\/23\/a-good-word-for-mr-gove\/","title":{"rendered":"A good word for Mr Gove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cynics might expect a post with this title to be blank, but not at all. \u00a0I met a man in a university coffee queue last week who was, whilst not overly-effusive, quietly grateful to Mr Gove and the DfE. \u00a0This was not just some ordinary bloke either; it was the University's\u00a0Hebron &amp; Medlock Professor of Information Technology who is as impressive as his title. \u00a0He told me that he appreciated the DfE's shifting of the school curriculum from ICT to [the much more rigorous] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.gov.uk\/inthenews\/inthenews\/a00201864\/harmful-ict-curriculum-set-to-be-dropped-this-september-to-make-way-for-rigorous-computer-science\">computer science<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All they have to do now is to pony-up some teachers who are qualified to do this \u2013 something the HMPIT told me the university was working on. \u00a0Double cheers, then. \u00a0I am pleased to be the bringer of glad tidings.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NB<\/strong>, the verb to \"pony-up\" is not one I habitually use, but it seems apt. \u00a0It derives from the Pony Express in the USA which, as all western movie fans will know, was used to convey precious cargoes from place to place, protecting them, if Hollywood is to be believed, from bad guys, and indians (ie, Native Americans), along the way. \u00a0 Well, there are plenty of the former around these days (metaphorically speaking) to lure potential computer science teachers with mega salaries. \u00a0I wonder, then, who's riding shotgun ...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cynics might expect a post with this title to be blank, but not at all. \u00a0I met a man in a university coffee queue last week who was, whilst not overly-effusive, quietly grateful to Mr Gove and the DfE. \u00a0This...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}