I want to give producers more financial security.

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

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

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.

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.

I am not good at dealing with the modern media. I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be.

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.