Estelle Morris Quotes

• At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Different, Times

• I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers, Pressure

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Failure, Power

• Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won’t change.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Governing, Change

• I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Goal

  Tags in Majority, Teachers

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Economy

  Tags in Government

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Education

• I want to give producers more financial security.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Give, Financial, Security

• I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Taught

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Job

  Tags in Help

• I was head of the Sixth Form Centre when I left the school.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Head

• I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful, Film, Message

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Day, Passion, Energy

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Money

  Tags in Workforce, Better

• 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?

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Important

• My Department has already recognised this and has been working specifically on the technical support issue since January and will offer advice to schools during the Autumn term.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Working, Advise, Support

• In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Films, Understand

• The need for improved technical support in schools has expanded as the Government and schools have increased their investment in information and communications technologies.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Schools

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Public

Estelle Morris (28)

Birth:	1952
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Politician, Teacher

About

Estelle Morris was born in Manchester, England. She is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 1992 to 2005, and served briefly in the Cabinet as Education Secretary. She is a graduate of the Coventry College of Education, where she gained a BEd in 1974. She was a PE and Humanities teacher at the inner-city Sidney Stringer School in Coventry from 1974–92. In 2004, she was awarded Honorary Doctorates in Arts from Leeds Metropolitan University and in Education from the University of Wolverhampton.

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