I thought Gove was doing really well. He recognised british education systems are behind compared to the likes of china and India and all he was try to do was bring about reforms that would make British systems just as rigourous as international counterparts.
Now he's gone our education system will remain the hot mess it was. I did my exams in may, i barely remember what i learnt in the course that i did just like most people. Our current secondary education systems place a lot of emphasis on memorizing, not much emphasis on consolidating our understanding of a subject so that we can still remember and use the knowledge we have well beyond our exams.