{"id":8137,"date":"2022-07-12T07:52:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=8137"},"modified":"2022-07-12T07:52:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:52:31","slug":"dfe-ministers-come-and-go-and-come-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2022\/07\/12\/dfe-ministers-come-and-go-and-come-again\/","title":{"rendered":"DfE ministers come and go and come again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-education\">new team<\/a> at the DfE. \u00a0After all the recent resignations new ministers are in place, although one who resigned seems to be back, and the one who never resigned is still there. \u00a0Three are new, including the Secretary of State and one of these is already in trouble for making \"a rude gesture\" that would have surely have gotten a student in trouble had they done the same in school. \u00a0She may be on borrowed time.<\/p>\n<p>But perhaps they all are. \u00a0After all, they are the ministry of a dying government which will be supplanted in the coming weeks. \u00a0And let's face it, they can hardly be the\u00a0<em>creme de la cr\u00e8me\u00a0<\/em>otherwise they'd all have been in place for a while.<\/p>\n<p>This poses a dilemma for all who'd try to influence what the DfE does, for example around environmental education. \u00a0Should you bother? \u00a0Or should you wait the new regime and see who survives? \u00a0Happily August looms and so the question resolves itself.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps our energies ought to be focused on keeping an eye on what the new team gets up to in the interregnum. \u00a0There is scope for much mischief.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's a new team at the DfE. \u00a0After all the recent resignations new ministers are in place, although one who resigned seems to be back, and the one who never resigned is still there. \u00a0Three are new, including the Secretary...<\/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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137","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=8137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}