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This chapter assesses the Gove legacy in education from the perspective of independent schools. Hands, a former chairman of the Headmasters and Headmistresses’ Conference (HMC), notes the impact of Gove’s own experience of independent schools and that of his undergraduate experience at Oxbridge in the formation of his values and policies in office. Contrary to much received wisdom, Hands argues that Gove’s legacy is more difficult to characterise than simply the transposing of independent sector values into the state system, and Hands also notes the centralising tendencies of the Department for Education in the creation of what he calls a ‘supreme Goviet’.
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Toby Young, The Spectator, 19 July 2014, p. 60.
Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil, edited by Sheila M Smith (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981), p. 65.
Lucy Powell, The New Statesman, 18–24 July 2014, p. 7.
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Hands, T. (2015). The Gove Legacy in Independent Schools: The Making and Unmaking of a Supreme Goviet. In: Finn, M. (eds) The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137491510_3
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