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. |
If we can modernise the workforce, make them better qualified, have this framework of qualifications, then I think they have a very good case for more money. |
I want to give producers more financial security. |
If bringing up the next generation is important, why aren't they the best qualified, the best paid? Why aren't we as concerned about their career progression as we are about those who work in the education or health services? |
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. |
At different times I taught humanities, social sciences and pre-vocational education. |
Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them. |
OFSTED has made large cuts in the paperwork which schools are asked to provide and further steps to reduce the bureaucratic burden will be introduced in September. |
My focus and that of all members of the Government responsible for delivering services to the public is to make sure that the public sector can use all the skills it needs to do the job the public wants it to do. |
You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options. |
I do recognise that, where recruitment difficulties persist, teachers can be put under great pressure. |
There is nothing wrong with becoming more ambitious along the way, but I think what the government has asked the council to do is a perfectly good starting point. |
In the 21st century when few of us stay in the same job all our lives, I would like to think there was flexibility so teachers could become social workers, or foster carers become teachers. |
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. |
I taught for 17 years in an inner city comprehensive schools. |
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. |
This government has always said increasing pay is something for something. |
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. |
I am confident that the vast majority of teachers will work with us towards achieving that goal. |