23-655: The Burnham committee – properly the Burnham Primary and Secondary and Burnham Further Education Committees – was responsible for setting teachers' pay in the United Kingdom. The committees were established by H. A. L. Fisher in 1919 when he was President of the Board of Education . On each committee there was a Teachers' Panel on which places were allocated to the various teachers unions in proportion to their membership, and an Employers' Panel. The committees were abolished by
46-1093: A reshuffle to the Department for Work and Pensions . On 7 July 2022, Michelle Donelan became the shortest-serving cabinet member in British history, when she resigned as Education Secretary 35 hours after being appointed. Colour key (for political parties): Whig Conservative Liberal Colour key (for political parties): Liberal Unionist Conservative Liberal Labour National Labour Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Labour Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Labour Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Colour key (for political parties): Conservative Labour Colour key (for political parties): Labour In 2007,
69-495: A Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, under two new secretaries of state. The ministerial office of the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills was, in late 2009, amalgamated into the new ministerial office of the resurgent politician Peter Mandelson , made a peer and given the title Lord Mandelson as the newly created Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills – itself an amalgamation of
92-537: A month, wherever the sovereign may be residing at the time, to give formal approval to Orders in Council . Only a few privy counsellors need attend such meetings, and only when invited to do so at the government's request. As the duties of the Lord President are not onerous, the post has often been given to a government minister whose responsibilities are not department-specific. In recent years it has been most typical for
115-541: Is also scrutinised by the Education Select Committee . The current education secretary is Bridget Phillipson . Corresponding to what is generally known as an education minister in many other countries, the education secretary's remit is concerned primarily with England . This includes: A committee of the Privy Council was appointed in 1839 to supervise the distribution of certain government grants in
138-575: The Teachers' Pay and Conditions Act 1987 . The Teachers Panel for Primary and Secondary Education was dominated by the National Union of Teachers . The National Association of Schoolmasters was not represented until 1961. The archives of official papers of the Burnham Committees and their Teachers' Panels are held at Warwick University library. The papers of Brian Rusbridge, who was Secretary to
161-517: The education secretary , is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom , responsible for the work of the Department for Education . The incumbent is a member of the Cabinet of the United Kingdom . The office holder works alongside the other Education ministers . The corresponding shadow minister is the shadow secretary of state for education , and the work of the secretary of state
184-511: The British war economy and consequently the entire British war effort. Winston Churchill , clearly believing that this wartime co-ordinating role was beneficial, introduced a similar but expanded system in the first few years of his post-war premiership . The so-called 'overlord ministers' included Frederick Leathers as Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, Fuel and Power and Lord Woolton as Lord President. Woolton's job
207-989: The Burnham and Allied Committees, are held in the Institute of Education Archives at University College London . The committees came to be known informally as "Burnham Committees" after their first chairman, Harry Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham , and were officially renamed as such after his death in 1933. President of the Board of Education King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The secretary of state for education , also referred to as
230-738: The Council is the presiding officer of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and the fourth of the Great Officers of State , ranking below the Lord High Treasurer but above the Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal . The Lord President usually attends and is responsible for chairing the meetings of the Privy Council, presenting business for the approval of the Sovereign . The Privy Council meets once
253-513: The Council, solely to preside over a meeting of the Privy Council held in a Commonwealth realm . Examples of this practice are the meetings in New Zealand in 1990 and 1995, when Geoffrey Palmer and James Bolger respectively were acting Lords President. Andrea Leadsom 's appointment in June 2017 was the first in some time where the post holder was not a full Cabinet member. "The Privy Council
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#1733085245064276-656: The Lord President also to serve as Leader of the House of Commons or Leader of the House of Lords . The Lord President has no role in the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . In the history of British government, the President of the Council is a relatively recent creation. The first certain appointment to the office being that of the Duke of Suffolk in 1529. Although there is a reference to Edmund Dudley serving as 'president of
299-465: The council' in 1497, it was only in 1529 that the role was given the style and precedence of a Great Officer of State by act of Parliament ( 21 Hen. 8 . c. 20). Prior to 1679 there were several periods in which the office was left vacant. During coronations of the monarch, the Lord President carries the Sword of State . In the 19th century, the Lord President was generally the cabinet member responsible for
322-593: 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). In 2007 under Gordon Brown's new premiership, the DfES was split into two new departments; the Department for Children, Schools and Families, and
345-804: 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. On 1 April 1900, the Board of Education Act 1899 abolished the committee and instituted a new board, headed by a president. The members were initially very similar to
368-568: The education portfolio was divided between the Department for Children, Schools and Families (responsible for infant, primary and secondary education) and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (responsible for further, higher and adult education). In 2009, the latter department was merged into the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills . Colour key (for political parties): Labour Labour Co-op Colour key (for political parties): Labour The Department for Education and
391-476: The education system, amongst his other duties. This role was gradually scaled back in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but remnants of it remain, such as the oversight of the governance of various universities. During times of National or coalition government the office of Lord President has sometimes been held by the leader of a minority party (e.g. Baldwin 1931–1935, MacDonald 1935–1937, Attlee 1943–1945, Clegg 2010–2015). It has been suggested that
414-465: The office has been intermittently used for Prime Ministerial deputies in the past. A particularly vital role was played by the Lord President of the Council during the Second World War . The Lord President served as chairman of the Lord President's Committee . This committee acted as a central clearing house which dealt with the country's economic problems. This was vital to the smooth running of
437-483: 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 Education Act 1944 replaced the Board of Education with a new Ministry of Education . The position of Secretary of State for Education and Science
460-662: The post of Secretary of State for Education were recreated in 2010. Lord President of the Council King Charles III [REDACTED] William, Prince of Wales [REDACTED] Charles III ( King-in-Council ) [REDACTED] Starmer ministry ( L ) Keir Starmer ( L ) Angela Rayner ( L ) ( King-in-Parliament ) [REDACTED] Charles III [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED] The Lord Reed The Lord Hodge Andrew Bailey Monetary Policy Committee The Lord President of
483-475: The responsibilities of the Secretaries of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Innovation, Universities and Skills. The Secretary of State has remit over higher education policy as well as British business and enterprise. From 14 July 2016 to 8 January 2018 the post was held by Justine Greening , as her predecessor, Nicky Morgan , was sacked by Theresa May . Greening resigned after rejecting
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#1733085245064506-489: Was created in 1964 with the merger of the offices of Minister of Education and the Minister of Science. The postholder oversaw the Department of Education and Science . From June 1970 to March 1974, this post was held by future prime minister Margaret Thatcher. 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
529-582: Was to co-ordinate the then separate ministries of agriculture and food. The historian Lord Hennessy of Nympsfield quotes a PhD thesis by Michael Kandiah saying that Woolton was "arguably the most successful of the Overlords" partly because his ministries were quite closely related; indeed, they were merged in 1955 as the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food . On several occasions since 1954, non-British Ministers have served briefly as acting Lords President of
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