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BaldJohn Bald says slowly but surely the Education Secretary is
winning over his critics  Praising Michael Gove, Fraser Nelson
writes in the Telegraph that in just two and a half years, state
education in England has changed, utterly. I wish. The reality
is reflected in the two and a half years' hard work that
preceded Elizabeth Truss's ban on the use of calculators in
maths tests for 11 year olds, and the further eighteen months
that it will take to come into effect. There was another hard
dose of reality about the academies programme from Neil
Macintosh, retiring chief executive of the organisation CfBT,
who pointed out in an unusually forceful retirement speech that
many new academies had simply changed their status for financial
reasons, and that quality was more important than quantity.
There was, though encouraging news