Nick Gibb is back at the DfE, but not (it seems) in his old role as minister of state for school standards. \u00a0Given that it was never clear why he was sacked in the first place, there might be some natural justice there. \u00a0I've no idea where he fits into the conservative party's ideological swamp. \u00a0Is he right wing, centre back, left back, mid field, \u00a0... .<\/p>\n
The rest of the team is a mixed bag.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d say that the new SoS,\u00a0Gillian Keegan<\/a>, suggests a swing towards vocational ed and a baccalaureate style \u2013 if the DfE curriculum civil servants (and the usual suspects in Ofqual, Ofsted, the exam boards and the Russell Group) don\u2019t obstruct her of course. \u00a0I\u2019m not placing any bets just yet.<\/p>\n Baroness Barran<\/a> survives again as minister for the school and college system.<\/p>\n Kelly Tolhurst<\/a> is minister for schools and childhood (sic).<\/p>\n Andrea Jenkyns<\/a> is minister for skills<\/p>\n Jonathan Gullis<\/a> is minister for school standards (Gibb's old job) and<\/p>\n Robert Halfon<\/a> (like Nick Gibb<\/a>) is minister for something undefined. \u00a0He was chair of the Commons education committee where he used to scrutinise ministers. \u00a0He's also interested in promoting what is known as the 'skills agenda'.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nick Gibb is back at the DfE, but not (it seems) in his old role as minister of state for school standards. \u00a0Given that it was never clear why he was sacked in the first place, there might be some...<\/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-8211","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\/8211","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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}