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7 unusual facts about Michael Gove


A Feast at Midnight

It is notable for featuring a cameo by future Education Secretary Michael Gove.

Advanced Childcare

An Ofsted review of the child care industry in 2013, commissioned by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, reported that one in three homes run by Advanced Childcare "failed to be classified as 'good' or 'outstanding' by the education watchdog."

Alice Miles

Miles was appointed in September 2012 to a paid post (alongside Dr Tim Leunig), advising the Education Secretary Michael Gove and Liberal Democrat Minister of State for Schools David Laws.

Building Schools for the Future

On 5 July 2010 the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, announced that following a review, the Building Schools for the Future programme was to be scrapped.

Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families

On May 12, 2010, the Department was again renamed and Michael Gove was appointed Secretary of State for Education.

Tracey MacLeod

Other screen credits include channel 4’s A Stab in the Dark with David Baddiel and Michael Gove, All I Want – A Portrait of Rufus Wainwright, Kitchen Criminals, Masterchef, and voicing over many music documentaries and the long-running BBC2 show Rapido, presented by Antoine de Caunes.

UCL Academy

On 6 August 2010 Education Secretary Michael Gove announced that the Academy would receive a requested £30 million capital allocation and would therefore proceed.


New Schools Network

The group was set up in 2009 by Rachel Wolf, a former adviser to Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, Secretary of State at the Department for Education.

Northern Ireland Schools Debating Competition

Guest adjudicators at the final have included Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education; Viscount Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury and former Leader of the House of Lords; the historian, Andrew Roberts; Guy Black, Lord Black of Brentwood, Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group; author and parliamentarian Lord Dobbs, and the acclaimed journalist and leader writer of The Times, Rosemary Righter.


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