Michael Gove refuses to dismiss the possibility of a Tory donor becoming the next Ofsted Chair

...The Lib Dems have warned they will not accept a "Tory donor ideologue" to chair the watchdog, amid reports that Theodore Agnew, an insurance magnate who worked closely with Mr Gove before the 2010 general election, was being lined up to replace the Labour peer, Baroness Sally Morgan.

Mr Agnew donated £134,000 to the Tories between 2007 and 2009. In 2010, he was appointed a non-executive director at the DfE. He is a trustee of Policy Exchange and was involved in the setting up of the New Schools Network, the body which has pioneered free schools.

The Education Secretary has been heavily criticised for attempting to “politicise” classrooms, after The Independent revealed on Friday that Baroness Sally would be forced to step aside when her current three-year term as Ofsted chair comes to an end.

David Laws, the Lib Dem Schools minister who was previously close to Mr Gove, let it be known that he is "absolutely furious at the blatant attempts by the Tories to politicise Ofsted"....


More at link:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/michael-gove-refuses-to-dismiss-the-possibility-of-a-tory-donor-becoming-the-next-ofsted-chair-9102153.html


This is getting worse and worse. Gove needs to be sent out to pick up litter in the school playground!

And I have never liked Laws, who was a thinly disguised Tory long before the Coalition; but this time, for once, he is right.