{"id":6982,"date":"2017-06-14T06:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6982"},"modified":"2017-06-14T06:00:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T06:00:37","slug":"a-greener-gove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2017\/06\/14\/a-greener-gove\/","title":{"rendered":"A greener Gove?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politics aside, as a blogger I'm very pleased to see Mr Gove back in government; it's been dull without his wit 'n' wisdom to entertain 'n'\u00a0enlighten us. \u00a0That he's gone to Defra add spice to the mix. \u00a0I see that the first outcome of all this shuffling is a rebuttal of accusations about Mr G, climate change and the national curriculum. \u00a0This is what the Times said yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Michael Gove\u2019s first act as environment secretary was to issue a denial yesterday that he had ever intended to remove climate change from the national curriculum. \u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessgreen.com\/bg\/news\/3011732\/unfit-for-this-job-caroline-lucas-slams-appointment-of-michael-gove-as-environment-secretary\">Green Party<\/a> had said he was \u201centirely unfit\u201d for the brief because of his \u201cattempt to wipe the subject from our children\u2019s curriculum\u201d. \u00a0This was a reference to claims in 2013 that Mr Gove, when education secretary, had removed climate change from a draft of the updated geography syllabus. \u00a0Mr Gove authorised officials to point yesterday to a strongly worded rebuttal issued by the Department for Education at the time.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And this is what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/2013\/jul\/05\/michael-gove-climate-change-geography-curriculum\">Guardian<\/a> said 3 years ago:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\"Climate change will stay on geography syllabus after lobbying from energy secretary Ed Davey. \u00a0Michael Gove, the education secretary, wanted to remove climate change as part of a drive to slim down the national curriculum. \u00a0Michael Gove has abandoned plans to drop climate change from the geography national curriculum. \u00a0The education secretary's decision represents a victory for Ed Davey, the energy and climate change secretary, who has waged a sustained battle in Whitehall to ensure the topic's retention. \u00a0The move to omit it from the new curriculum took on a symbolic status. \u00a0Gove insisted it was part of his drive to slim an unwieldy curriculum down, to give teachers greater freedom to show their initiative. \u00a0It was claimed that climate change would appear under science. \u00a0But environmentalists and science teachers claimed the omission would downgrade the topic and make its existence a matter of greater dispute.\"<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As I said: never a dull moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics aside, as a blogger I'm very pleased to see Mr Gove back in government; it's been dull without his wit 'n' wisdom to entertain 'n'\u00a0enlighten us. \u00a0That he's gone to Defra add spice to the mix. \u00a0I see that...<\/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-6982","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\/6982","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=6982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}