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.

Headteachers and governing bodies run schools and that won't change.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.