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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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