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

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

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.

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.

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

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.