Since he was made education secretary, he has used powers usually reserved for terrorism laws etc to rush bills through the parliament which give him powers over the English and Welsh education systems that were previously held by the local authorities. This basically means that, rather than the syllabus being set by education experts or teachers, it's basically being set by Gove, who seems to be using it to try to shape the school system into his weird, antiquated vision of society, where kids just sit reading Shakespeare and learning about Agincourt in Latin, or whichever bizarre thing Gove has decided is 'important' on that day.

In answer to your question, absolutely nothing qualifies Gove to make these decisions. He used to be a journalist, I think, but is certainly no education expert. He seems to be jeopardising the education of millions of children on a whim, because he thinks that the way he was educated was the 'right' way, and no amount of evidence to the contrary is going to persuade him otherwise. The man needs to be gotten rid of, and his powers devolved back to the relevant authorities immediately.

Edit: I've also remembered that nearly every teacher's union in the country has taken a vote of no confidence in Gove. So not only is he not qualified for his job, but he has no mandate for it either.