Estelle Morris
Estelle Morris
Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, PCis a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliamentfor Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005, and served briefly in the Cabinet as Education Secretary...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPolitician
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OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September.
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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.
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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.
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The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.
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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.
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Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.
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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.
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I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.
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I want to give producers more financial security.
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I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.
government
This government has always said increasing pay is something for something.
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By creating useful job descriptions and making clear what qualifications should be expected, the Department aims to help improve schools' ability to recruit the right people.
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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.
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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.