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The Secretary of State for Education and Skills is the chief minister of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom government.A Committee of the Privy Council was appointed in 1839 to supervise the distribution of certain Government grants in the education field. The members of the Committee were the Lord President of the Council, the Secretaries of State, the First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. From 1857 a Vice President was appointed who took responsibility for policy.
In 1899 the Board of Education Act abolished the Committee and instituted a new Board, headed by a President, as of April 1, 1900. The members were initially very similar to the old Committee and the President of the Board was the Lord President of the Council; however, from 1902 this ceased to be the case and the President of the Board was appointed separately (although the Marquess of Londonderry happened to hold both jobs from 1903 to 1905).
The Department of Education and Science was created in 1964 with the merger of the offices of Minister of Education and the Minister of Science . In 1992 the responsibility for scienceFor the scientific journal named Science see Science (journal). Science is both a process of gaining knowledge, and the organized body of knowledge gained by this process. The scientific process is the systematic acquisition of new knowledge about a syste was transferred to Cabinet OfficeThe Cabinet Office is a United Kingdom government department. Its remit under the present administration is to support the Prime Minister in ensuring delivery of the Government's strategy with particular priority areas of education, health, transport and’s Office of Public Service , and the department was renamed Department of EducationDepartment of Education may refer to any of several government agencies: Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom (formerly named simply Department of Education until 1995) United States Department of Education Many U. states also have th. In 19951995 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). It has a Golden number of 1, and was the first year of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People (1995- 2005): http://www. org/culture/indigenous . Events January events Ja the department merged with the Department of Employment to become the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE) and in 2001 the employment functions were transferred to a newly created Department for Work and PensionsThe Department for Work and Pensions is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom. It is currently headed by the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, a Cabinet position., with the DfEE becoming the Department for Education and Skills (DfES).
The current Secretary of State for Education and Skills is Charles ClarkeThe Right Honourable Charles Rodway Clarke (born September 21, 1950) is a British Labour Party politician. He is Member of Parliament for Norwich South and Secretary of State for Education and Skills. The son of a senior civil servant, Charles Clarke read following the resignation of Estelle MorrisThe Right Honourable Estelle Morris (born 1952) is a English politician, Labour Party member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley, and was briefly a member of the Cabinet. She was a teacher at the inner-city Sidney Stringer school in Coventry and was a me on 23 October 2002.
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1.1 Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education
- William Cowper ( February 5, 1857 - February 21, 1858)
- Charles Adderley ( March 12, 1858 - June 11, 1859)
- Robert Lowe ( June 24, 1859 - April 26, 1864) (Resigned)
- Henry Bruce ( April 26, 1864 - June 26, 1866)
- Henry Lowry-Corry ( June 26, 1866 - March 19, 1867)
- Lord Robert Montagu ( March 19, 1867 - December 1, 1868)
- William Forster ( December 9, 1868 - February 17, 1874)
- Viscount Sandon ( March 2, 1874 - April 4, 1878)
- Lord George Hamilton ( April 4, 1878 - April 21, 1880)
- Anthony Mundella ( May 3, 1880 - June 9, 1885)
- Edward Stanhope ( June 24, 1885 - September 17, 1885)
- Sir Henry Holland ( September 17, 1885 - January 28, 1886)
- Sir Lyon Playfair ( February 13, 1886 - July 20, 1886)
- Sir Henry Holland ( August 3, 1886 - January 25, 1887)
- Sir William Hart Dyke ( January 25, 1887 - August 11, 1892)
- Arthur Acland ( August 25, 1892 - June 21, 1895)
- Sir John Eldon Gorst ( July 4, 1895 - August 8, 1902)
