We all need to fight to mitigate the worst aspects of the English Baccalaureate Certificates (EBCs).
The Liberal Democrats are in the last chance saloon when it comes to their reputation as having educational principles for which they are prepared to fight.
Having allowed through free schools and academies to appoint unqualified teachers and having allowed the most prescriptive and restrictive proposed primary national curriculum, the Liberal Democrats have either to show some backbone or to be blamed for abandoning schools and pupils.
Michael Gove’s proposed EBCs gives Lib Dem ministers the grounds on which they can begin a fight-back against his disastrous education agenda, outlined in the Department for Education (DfE) consultation paper on the EBCs proposals.
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