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    Michael Gove criticised by Lord Baker for policies based on 'his own educational experience'
    The former education secretary's comments cap week when Mr Gove's free school plans have triggered a rift at the heart of the coalition

    Michael Gove's flagship policies are "entirely derived from his own educational experience", Margaret Thatcher's former education secretary has claimed.

    The Conservative peer Lord Baker said that Mr Gove - who has championed a controversial agenda including the free schools programme, exam reforms and changes to teachers' pay and pensions - was pushing through plans that could fail children who did not have his natural advantages.

    Speaking at the Sir John Cass Foundation Lecture at the Cass Business School this week, Lord Baker, who was Education Secretary from 1986 to 1989, said: "Michael Gove had a tough upbringing and he believes if he did it, anybody in the country could do what he did: whether they're orphans, whether they're poor, whether they're impoverished, they can all rise to the top. That is not actually true, and that is dominating the attitude of a key minister in government."

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