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  Is Gove treading water ?
  
  Michael Gove like a fanatical personal trainer, union says
  
  Michael Gove will attend a question and answer session at the conference
  
  The education secretary is like a "fanatical personal trainer" who urges schools to jump higher
  
  and run faster, a head teachers' leader is to say.
  
  Bernadette Hunter, president of the NAHT, will say Michael Gove pays no heed to "the damage
  
  he is causing to the body or the system".
  
  Heads are being bullied into turning schools into academies, she will tell the union's conference in Birmingham.
  
  Mr Gove is expected to tell delegates his reforms are raising standards.
  
  Ahead of the conference Ms Hunter said head teachers were also "particularly unhappy" about what she
  
  called the "constant churn of educational change" and the "negative rhetoric" coming from the government.
  
  "We know that UK schools are amongst the best in the world," she told the BBC's Breakfast programme.
  
  "They are highly regarded by other countries, but to hear the Department for Education you would think
  
  we have a failing system."

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