According to the model, the MEHRD is to be in charge of teacher training, including pre-service and in-service education and qualification, curriculum, and supervision while the MGEF is to be responsible for financial support and institutional management.
Likewise, the relentless reform of qualifications and curriculum, started under Labour and fanatically continued by the coalition, means that teachers must prepare for new courses every year until 2019.
Unfortunately, the qualifications and curriculum authority which assists the secretary of state for education to decide what is taught in schools drew up its list of approved novelists, without the beneficial advice it could have obtained from a 'literature panel'.
Chris Keates, leader of the Nasuwt teachers' union, accused the education secretary of "trotting out tired old and false assertions about England's alleged slide down the international leagues tables as a justification for tearing up the qualifications and curriculum framework and pursuing his personal ideological crusade".
The big challenge in English education is the long tail of underachievement, and these young people are going to be in education and training until 18 and we have to think more intelligently about the kind of qualification and curriculum which naturally ends at 18".
"The coalition government is making policy decisions about academies, the national curriculum, qualifications and even teacher training provision.
They will be allowed to convert into semi-independent academies as early as September this year if the Tories win, giving them more power over the curriculum, qualifications, staff, budgets and admissions.
These schools will be allowed to convert into semi-independent academies as early as September this year if the Tories win, giving them more power over the curriculum, qualifications, staff, budgets and, most crucially, admissions.
We now have the worst of all worlds: the hierarchy is steeper than ever but diversity that did exist within the non-selective system is being ironed out as schools are forced into chains and obliged to conform on everything from curriculum, qualifications and culture, to the dress codes of pupils and staff.
Hardip Begol, director of assessment, curriculum, qualifications and accountability at DfE, said Alam had engaged in conduct "aimed at undermining the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths or beliefs".
