A number of reports over the past 12 months have raised concerns about the impact of shifting the legal duty to provide independent advice from local authorities to schools in September 2012.
But appearing before the education select committee, Gove dismissed suggestions that services have deteriorated.
Gove told the group of MPs that some critics of the changes were “self-interested” and talking “garbage”, insisting that the system is better than it was before.
“Let’s not imagine that prior to the transfer of careers advice responsibilities to schools, the situation was brilliant,” he said.
“It is not the case that there was a Ming vase of careers guidance that has been smashed by a thoughtless government.
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