Words matter. These are the best Estelle Morris Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won’t stay unless they see real career options.
If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
Before this government came to power, many failing schools were simply allowed to drift on in a pattern of continuing failure. The government is determined to break that pattern and is successfully doing so.
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse effect on the economy.
If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren’t they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren’t we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services?
The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
I know there are things I did in education that will never be reversed. I have not done that in film yet because I have only been here for about nine months.
If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money.
I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.
Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won’t change.
My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do.
We do recognise the need to move towards the publication of information showing the progress made by pupils from one stage of their education to another.
There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point.
It is a very unusual sector and the one thing I would ask of them is to understand that for most of them one-third of their films are being financed by the taxpayer and that carries huge accountability and responsibility.
