She said: "This is a deeply provocative move by the education secretary, which is hugely disappointing.
He was also a fierce advocate of provocative ideas on drugs, education, the draft and other areas of public policy.
Shabana Mahmood said she was hugely disappointed by the deeply provocative move by the education secretary, Michael Gove, to appoint a former anti-terrorism police officer, Peter Clarke, to investigate claims that Islamist hardliners were taking over schools as part of a shadowy plot called Operation Trojan Horse.
The provocation proved provocative.
So here's the provocative corollary: is public higher education in England now first and foremost a business that just happens to be education-based?
The city's public advocate, Bill de Blasio, called the education proposals "needlessly provocative," and the Manhattan borough president, Scott M. Stringer, said the mayor was taking "a lone ranger approach to education".
Bill de Blasio, the New York public advocate, laid out a provocative plan on Thursday to finance education programs by raising income taxes on the city's wealthiest residents, an early populist salvo in his presumptive campaign for mayor.
TED (Ted.com) is known for innovative adult education, presenting some of the most provocative speakers from all over the world.
He spoke of commissioning provocative modern works and of attracting new audiences through education programs, radio broadcasts, and outdoor concerts.
The issue of religious education in the public schools has been provocative, highlighting the growing influence of the Russian Orthodox church since the Soviet Union's collapse.
