Estelle Morris Quotes

• 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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• There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 – and 11,000 higher than 1997.

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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.

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• This government has always said increasing pay is something for something.

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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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• Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

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• You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won’t stay unless they see real career options.

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• What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

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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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