English - Politician | 1952 -
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education.
Estelle Morris
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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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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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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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I think film is a very powerful advocate and message carrier.
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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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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.
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I want to give producers more financial security.
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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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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?
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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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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.
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