Michael Gove says government’s children’s department made catastrophic mistake on number of pupils

David Willetts has already slammed the government over the college funding shortfall.  

 Now Michael Gove, the Shadow Children’s Secretary, has joined in, demanding immediate clarification, and saying that schools are extremely concerned as this will affect their Sixth Forms’ budgets.   He said that Ed Balls’s department had made “a catastrophic mistake” on the numbers of pupils staying in education after the age of 16.

Read more of what Michael Gove has to  say here:

http://www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/04/Gove_demands_answers_over_college_funding_shortfall.aspx