Secretary of State for Education and Skills

The Secretary of State for Education and Skills is the chief minister of the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom government.

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 science was transferred to Cabinet Office's Office of Public Service, and the department was renamed Department of Education. In 1995 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 Pensions, with the DfEE becoming the Department for Education and Skills (DfES).

The current Secretary of State for Education and Skills is Charles Clarke following the resignation of Estelle Morris on 23 October 2002.

Table of contents

1 List

1.1 President of the Board of Education
1.2 Minister of Education
1.3 Secretary of State for Education and Science

1.3.1 Minister of State, Department of Education & Science

1.4 Secretary of State for Education
1.5 Secretary of State for Education and Employment
1.6 Secretary of State for Education and Skills

2 See also

List

President of the Board of Education

Lord Londonderry (1902-1905)

Augustine Birrell (1905-1907)

Reginald McKenna (1907-1908)

Walter Runciman (1908-1911)

Joseph Albert Pease (1911-1915)

Arthur Henderson (1915-1916)
Robert Offley Ashburton Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of Crewe (1916)
Herbert Fisher (1916-1922)
Edward Wood (1922-1924)
Charles Philips Trevelyan (1924)
Lord Edward Percy (1924-1929)
Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (1929-1931)
Hastings Bertram Lees-Smith (1931)
Sir D. Maclean (1931-1932)
Lord Halifax (1932-1935)
Oliver Stanley (1935-1937)
James Stanhope, 7th Earl Stanhope (1937-1938)
Lord De La Warr (1938-1940)

Minister of Education

Richard Austen Butler (1940-1945)
Ellen Wilkinson (1945-1947)
G. Tomlinson (1947-1951)
Florence Horsbrugh (1951-1954)
D. Eccles (1954-1957)
Viscount Hailsham (1957)
D. Eccles (1957-1962)
E. Boyle (1962-1964)

Secretary of State for Education and Science

M. Stewart (1964)

Anthony Crosland (1964-1967)
Edward Short (1967-1970)
Margaret Thatcher (1970-1974)
Reginald Prentice (1974-1975)
Fred Mulley (1975-1976)
Shirley Williams (1976-1979)
Mark Carlisle (1979-1981)
Keith Joseph (1981-1986)
Kenneth Baker (1986-1989)
John MacGregor (1989-1990)
Kenneth Clarke (1990-1992)

Minister of State, Department of Education & Science

Jennie Lee (1967-1970)