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	Estelle Morris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley, PC (born 1952) is an English Labour politician and member of the House of Lords.
		Her uncle, Alf Morris, was Labour MP for Manchester Wythenshawe from 1964 and her father, Charles Morris, was Labour MP for Manchester Openshaw 1963-83.
		Morris was elected to Parliament in 1992 for Birmingham Yardley She became a minister in the Department for Education and Employment in 1997 and was promoted to Secretary of State for Education and Skills in 2001.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Estelle_Morris (375 words)

	Morris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Morris is the name of some places in the United States of America:
		One of the fourteen Tribes of Galway, Ireland - a notable member of the Morris family was Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin (Lord Killanin), former president of the International Olympic Committee.
		Morris the Cat, the feline mascot of 9Lives brand cat food.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Morris (267 words)

	Estelle Morris, MP - Another Liar ?
		Morris has said she has no intention of resigning, but pressure is being applied that she keeps to her word; a promise to resign should education targets not be met.
		Morris as its head must take responsibility for her department, which is accused of failing to act swiftly to warnings of fraud, and there are still questions which need to be answered about the way in which the scheme was closed down.
		Morris has not resigned to fulfil the pledge which she is said to have made, that she would go if education targets were not met, but because she didn't think she was running the Education Department as well as it should be.
	www.hippy.freeserve.co.uk /morrismp.htm (2213 words)

	Estelle Morris -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Morris was born to a strongly political family.
		Her uncle, Alf Morris, was Labour MP for Manchester Wythenshawe from 1964 and her father, (Click link for more info and facts about Charles Morris) Charles Morris, was Labour MP for Manchester Openshaw 1963-83.
		She was a teacher at the inner-city Sidney Stringer school in (An industrial city in central England; devastated by air raids during World War II; remembered as the home of Lady Godiva in the 11th century) Coventry and was a member of Warwick District Council from 1979 to 1991.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/es/estelle_morris.htm (413 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Talking Point \| Was Estelle Morris right to resign?
		Ms Morris' rise up the political ladder came to a juddering halt with the A-level row, and there were further calls for her to resign when she overstepped her powers by trying to intervene when an appeals panel reinstated two boys expelled for threatening a teacher.
		Nick Tester, UK Estelle Morris was wrong to resign but it is a tribute to her massive commitment to education that she felt she had to step down if not able to meet her very high standards and expectations.
		Estelle Morris should not have resigned as the current problems are caused by too many radical changes being brought in without previous changes having time to settle down.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/2354961.stm (2031 words)

	The Scotsman - Top Stories - Blow to PM as schools chief quits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Estelle Morris kept her promise to resign if literacy and numeracy targets were not met.
		ESTELLE Morris last night resigned as Education Secretary after telling the Prime Minister she did not believe she was up to her job.
		Ms Morris, the highest-ranking female politician in the UK, told the Prime Minister she was proud of the role she played as schools minister and Education Secretary, but that she had learned her limitations as a government minister.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1174452002 (850 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| Estelle Morris: classroom to cabinet
		The promotion for Ms Morris, moving up from her post as schools standards minister, is in a department which will no longer have responsibility for employment.
		Estelle Morris had entered teacher training despite flunking her A-levels.
		Estelle Morris, who will be 49 this month, came from a political family in Manchester - both her father, Charles Morris and her uncle, Alf - now Lord Morris - were MPs.
	news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1376000/1376274.stm (826 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| News crumb \| Estelle Morris's road to resignation
		Estelle Morris's "three bad months" that led to her resignation on October 23 last year could be closer to ten.
		Damian Green, the shadow education secretary, accuses Ms Morris and her colleagues at the DfES of "running for cover".
		October 22: Ms Morris hands in her resignation to the prime minister, Tony Blair; he asks her to sleep on it.
	www.guardian.co.uk /Education/schools/story/0,5500,871498,00.html (476 words)

	ePolitix.com - Estelle Morris resigns - again
		Morris resigned as education secretary two years ago after media criticism of her handling of a string of problems facing her department.
		Morris, who has been MP for Birmingham Yardley since 1992, said: "It has been a huge privilege to represent Yardley in parliament and I owe a debt of gratitude to my constituents and my party members for giving me that opportunity.
		Morris has indicated that she would be happy to remain as arts minister until the election but said it was a decision for the prime minister.
	www.epolitix.com /EN/News/200409/29d01aad-e615-4376-a7c9-0c658a25e212.htm (277 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| Newsnight \| Estelle Morris
		The Arts Minister Estelle Morris is an exception - she has resigned before as Secretary of State for Education when she admitted she was out of her depth and she came to loathe media intrusion.
		It was in 1992 that Estelle Morris was elected as MP for Birmingham Yardley.
		Estelle Morris resigned in October 2002 after a series of problems over A-level results and the vetting of teachers.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/newsnight/3659938.stm (1435 words)

	The end of term for Estelle Morris
		Estelle Morris will remain in her post while the Iraq crisis brews but will get the dreaded call from Number 10 before too long.
		The hapless Ms Morris asked the most likely culprits, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA), to investigate the matter, and they promptly judged themselves and everybody else to be not guilty.
		And then Ms Morris tried to deflect attention from the scandal but drove another stake into the heart of A-levels by suggesting that they should be abolished in favour of the French style baccalaureate.
	theinternetforum.co.uk /politics/morris1.html (722 words)

	BBC NEWS \| VOTE2001 \| Morris: Schools must change
		Newly-appointed Education and Skills Secretary Estelle Morris has signalled she will continue to battle against the teaching unions to achieve a "a real transformation in secondary education".
		Ms Morris defended the government's decision to abandon fully comprehensive education by allowing many schools to specialise in subjects of their choice.
		Ms Morris said she understood why her predecessor had described the introduction of student fees as one of his most difficult decisions.
	amiabstractornot.highlyillogical.org /vote2001/hi/english/newsid_1381000/1381665.stm (625 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| The arts column: please let the arts breathe, Miss Morris
		Nice, hard-working, earnest Estelle Morris, who resigned as Education Secretary last October with the honest admission that she found the brief too much for her, has been returned to government very quickly.
		Kim Howells (whose DCMS brief was actually broadcasting and tourism, not the arts) may have contributed to the gaiety of the nation with his child-of-three-could-do-better outburst against the Tracey Emin tendency, but such antics can easily explode in a politician's face, and the one thing the Government doesn't want the arts to cause is embarrassment.
		If Estelle Morris wants to be brave, she could stop trying to push the arts into line and let them shine like a beacon instead.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/06/18/bacol18.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/06/18/ixartleft.html (825 words)

	interv_Morris
		Estelle Morris: In the UK there are different ways of communicating and expressing cultural traditions and celebrating people's roots.
		Of course, it is also an important way for the second or third generation of those ethnic minority communities to take a pride in their culture a way of communicating history and ensuring that it is not forgotten.
		Estelle Morris: There are many pressures on governments health, education, transport, foreign affairs and defence, for example.
	www.coe.int /T/E/Com/Files/Ministerial-Conferences/2003-Culture/interv_Morris.asp (427 words)

	Estelle Morris - Heritage Lottery Fund
		Estelle Morris MP, Minister of State for the Arts, announced Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grants totalling over £2million for two museum projects in the East Midlands.
		Estelle Morris MP, Minister of State for the Arts, commented: “I’m delighted to announce this allocation of Heritage Lottery Fund money when we are celebrating the impact of 10 years of Lottery funding for our museums.
		Estelle Morris was speaking at the Museum Associations ‘Game Plan: Museums and Lottery Funding’ Conference at the National Gallery.
	www.hlf.org.uk /English/MediaCentre/Archive/Estelle+Morris.htm (742 words)

	CNN.com - Blair forced to reshuffle cabinet - Oct. 24, 2002
		Clarke, renowned as a gruff but shrewd politician, steps into one of the government's most crucial posts after Morris, 50, candidly admitted she was not up to the job.
		But for the last month Morris has been barraged with criticism over the handling of exam results which cost hundreds of students the chance to go to college or university.
		Morris also came under fire over attempts to vet teachers before the start of the school year and more recently became embroiled in a dispute over the reinstatement of two pupils who had allegedly issued death threats against a teacher.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/24/uk.reshuffle (579 words)

	News release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Education Secretary, Estelle Morris, marked the dawn of a new era in post-16 education when she visited the William Morris Academy — England’s first 16 to 19 school.
		William Morris Academy (WMA), which previously acted as the sixth form for five secondary schools in Hammersmith and Fulham, assumed its new status in January - making it a model for other local education authorities to follow.
		Estelle Morris saw how WMA, in St Dunstan’s Road, Hammersmith, helps young people with a wide range of abilities and backgrounds to achieve outstanding results and progress on to higher education when she marked its official opening as a 16 to 19 school today (Tuesday, February 12).
	www.lbhf.gov.uk /News/200202/estellemorris_200202_12.htm (673 words)

	NYU - Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Estelle Doheny, wife of a California multimillionaire oilman and rancher tainted by the Teapot dome scandal, had the means to pursue her passion for books to th e fullest, ending up with an extraordinary library crowned by a Gutenberg Bible.
		Her Morris holdings, which included Morris’s calligraphic manuscript of the "Aeneid" and a Kelmscott "Chaucer" printed on vellum, brought more than $2 million when sold by C hristie’s in 1987.
		The NYU Fales Library, one of the country’s great libraries of Victorian literature based on the acquisitions of a single collector, Courtney Fales, is the perfect venue for this lecture on two important collectors of William Morris.
	www.nyu.edu /publicaffairs/newsreleases/b_Two_.shtml (207 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| Exclusive interview: Estelle Morris
		In October, Estelle Morris did something very unusual: she resigned as education secretary because she didn't feel up to the job.
		Morris felt that her "bad three months" had become a "magnifying glass" through which all her actions were viewed.
		Politicians should rightly be held to account, Morris argues, but cannot be held responsible for every leaking school roof or badly-served patient (a trend she admits her own party encouraged while in opposition).
	politics.guardian.co.uk /interviews/story/0,11660,871244,00.html (1463 words)

	The Observer \| Special reports \| Estelle has let us down
		Estelle Morris's resignation has everyone tripping over their feet in their eagerness to find suitable plaudits for the former Secretary of State for Education.
		Estelle Morris may have seen every question about her unmarried status as a personal aggression; but her male counterpart would dismiss it as the prurient (but also rather gratifying) interest that everyone has in every aspect of a public figure's existence.
		Estelle Morris was too sensitive, too sheltered, too gentle to detect in the pipsqueak columnists who took exception to her cardie the confirmation of her success.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /education/story/0,12554,820210,00.html (1061 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Careers \| Estelle Morris heads for academia
		Estelle Morris, the arts minister and former education secretary - who is stepping down as an MP in next week's general election - is to return to education in her first paid employment after leaving politics, the Guardian can reveal.
		Ms Morris, who steps down after 13 years as MP for Birmingham Yardley, will join the university in June as a member of its senior executive team working two days a week.
		Ms Morris was the longest- serving education minister in the Labour government since 1997 until she resigned from the cabinet after the A-level grading fiasco in October 2002.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/careers/story/0,9856,1470294,00.html (458 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Profile: Estelle Morris
		Estelle Morris' decision to step down as an MP at the next general election will not come as a complete surprise to long-time observers of her political career.
		But tellingly, in her resignation statement as education secretary, Ms Morris said she felt she had achieved more in her first job as schools minister than as secretary of state.
		Ms Morris had a strong Labour background long before her election to the Commons in 1992.
	news.bbc.co.uk.edgesuite.net /1/low/uk_politics/2988668.stm (465 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> World -> British Education Secretary Estelle Morris quits
		London: British Education Secretary Estelle Morris has resigned signalling that problems running "her huge department" and clashes with the media had led her to quit.
		According to an official spokesman, Blair went on to praise Morris' contribution to the government and made it clear her ministerial career had not ended.
		Morris had been at the centre of a scandal over the downgrading of exam results and was accused by the Conservatives of reneging on a 1999 promise to quit if key standards for young people were not met this year.
	news.indiainfo.com /2002/10/24/24quit.html (250 words)

	Leeds Metropolitan University - Graduation 2004 - Honorary Doctorates
		In 1992 Estelle Morris was elected Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley, which she continues to represent.
		After becoming Leader of the Labour Party in 1994, Tony Blair was quick to identify her as an important proponent and effective communicator of the set of values for which ‘New Labour’; came to stand.
		When Labour won power in May 1997 Estelle Morris continued to hold a portfolio in education, first in the area of school standards and then in 2001 as Secretary of State for the newly created Department for Education and Skills.
	www.lmu.ac.uk /graduation04/honorary/july/4em.htm (649 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Politics \| Profile: Estelle Morris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Estelle Morris' decision to step down as an MP at the next general election will not come as a surprise to long-time observers of her political career.
		Promoting Mrs Morris to the helm of such a big, high-profile government department as education was always likely to be a risky move.
		Mrs Morris had a strong Labour background long before her election to the Commons in 1992.
	212.58.226.40 /2/hi/uk_news/politics/2988668.stm (494 words)

	CNN.com - Exams scandal UK minister resigns - Oct. 23, 2002
		Morris has been severely criticised in recent months over the downgrading of exam results.
		Government sources denied that Morris had been asked to resign following her recent failure to meet targets set for youngsters' literacy.
		The Press Association reported that Blair was said to have full confidence in his education minister until their meeting on Wednesday night, when she announced her resignation.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/10/23/britain.politics (201 words)

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