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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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