The coalition is pursuing a “lunatic and harmful" education agenda, a leading academic has said.
Professor Bernard Barker, Emeritus Professor of educational leadership and management at the University of Leicester, also said that Michael Gove's overhaul of policy means that he will be “long gone" as education minister before we know the full impact of his reforms, including the controversial English Baccalaureate (EBacc).
Prof Barker, a former headteacher, is known for a similar attack on the previous Labour administration. In his March 2010 book The Pendulum Swings, he accused Labour of having a “self-defeating pursuit of test results".
His ideas have now been included in an article due to be published in the Journal of Educational Administration and History in the coming weeks alongside further comment from educationalists, including himself. In his contribution, he turns his attention to the coalition's education policy-making.
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