The latest stroke of joined up thinking from the incomparable Michael Gove:
Children as young as 11 should be expected to read 50 books a year as part of a national drive to improve literacy standards, according to Michael Gove, the Education Secretary.
He said pupils should complete the equivalent of about a novel a week and that the academic demands placed on English schoolchildren had been “too low for too long”.
You can read the rest here.
Meanwhile, out in the real world, here’s a link to all the libraries under threat of closure that children won’t be able to get their fifty books a year from:
http://libraries.fromconcentrate.net/
Still, I’m sure that Gove has thought of this and is funding school libraries to take up the slack. I mean, he must be, mustn’t he?
And another point from the Telegraph article:
“One of the biggest problems in the English state education system is that only a minority can follow an academic education and that only a minority can go to university. Quite wrong,” said Mr Gove.
So that’s why university teaching budgets have been devastated then.
