Michael Gove

The Minister for Education’s record during his time in office is a catalogue of errors.

A two-minute walk around the graveyard of this silly man’s bad decisions reveal the repeated bungling of the revised lists for rebuilding and renovation of schools and the nonsensical cancelling, then reinstatement, of the Schools’ Sports Partnership.

In the fatuous remarks corner we spot his recent complaint at the expense of schools architects’ fees, quoting one person’s earnings of £1m in a year. In fact, that project covered four years, involved five architects and cost £700,000.

This is closely followed by Gove’s statement of regret the over representation of the privately educated elite in prominent positions in our society – a rather less than convincing sentiment coming as it does from a graduate of the private Robert Gordon’s College in Scotland.

And Gove’s reputation is not enhanced by his musings on science offered the other day to The Times. “Students need a rooting in basic scientific principles such as Newton’s laws of thermodynamics and Boyle’s Law”, intoned the absurd little man.

Newton would no doubt be grateful for this recognition but his work was in fact on the law of motion, not thermodynamics.

We await anxiously some small sign of competence in the activities of Mr Gove. The holding of breath is not advised.

Rob Meggs, Hartlepool.