Estelle Morris Quotes

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

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Looking

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Private, Sector

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Education, Progress

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

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Payment

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Ambitious, Government

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers

• 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

• 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.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Made, School

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Head

• I want to give producers more financial security.

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Give, Financial, Security

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

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Powerful, Film, Message

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

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in City, Taught

• 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

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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