Ms Morris quit after announcing that she did not feel she had done well enough in the job. In a letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair explaining her decision she said, 'I have not felt I have been as effective as I should be, or as effective as you need me to be.'
But she added, 'I will look back with real pride at the role I have played in helping raise standards in literacy and numeracy in primary schools, in the reform programme we now have for secondary schools, and indeed at all levels of education; and perhaps above all the enhanced status of the teaching profession.'
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