Estelle Morris Quotes

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

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Teachers, Pressure

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

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  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

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Governing, Change

• 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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  Topics in Job

  Tags in Help

• 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

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

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Different, Times

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

  Estelle Morris

  Topics in Politics

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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