Education - Council, Board, Butler, Ministry

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.

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 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.

Teacher Training - 1899-1951 ..

• Compulsory and free primary education: 1880s and 1890s .
• Funding of technical colleges .
• Balfour and Local Education Authorities .
• Balfour Act of 1902 .
• The Fisher Act of 1918 .
• Spens and Norwood reports .
• 1944: Butler .

School in the 40s.

‘Experimental’ secondary modern education in Britain, 1948–1958.

Education: Historical statistics (pdf).

Education - Council, Board, Butler, Ministry ..

Education, Training, Universities - post-WW1 ..

Teacher Training - 1899-1951 ..

Vice-President of the Committee of the Council on Education 5 February 1857 - 8 August 1902

President of the Board of Education 3 March 1900 - 3 August 1944

Minister of Education 3 August 1944 - 1 April 1964

Secretary of State for Education and Science 1 April 1964 - 10 April 1992

Secretary of State for Education 10 April 1992 - 5 July 1995

Secretary of State for Education and Employment 5 July 1995 - 8 June 2001

Secretary of State for Education and Skills 8 June 2001 - 27 June 2007

Secretaries of State for Children, Schools and Families; and Innovation, Universities and Skills 28 June 2007 - 11 May 2010

Secretary of State for Education 11 May 2010 - present

President of the Board of Education

The Earl Stanhope  

28 May 1937 - 27 October 1938 1 year, 4 months and 29 days Conservative .

The Earl De La Warr  

27 October 1938 - 3 April 1940 1 year, 5 months and 7 days National Labour .

Herwald Ramsbotham  

3 April 1940 20 - July 1941 1 year, 3 months and 17 days Conservative

R. A. Butler  

20 July 1941 3 August 1944 3 years and 14 days (Cont. below) Conservative

Minister of Education

R. A. Butler		3 August 1944	25 May 1945	9 months and 22 days (Cont. from above)	Conservative		Winston Churchill (War Coalition)
	Richard Law		25 May 1945	26 July 1945	2 months and 1 day		Conservative	Winston Churchill (Caretaker Min.)
	Ellen Wilkinson		3 August 1945	6 February 1947 (died in office)	1 year, 6 months and 3 days	Labour		Clement Attlee
	George Tomlinson		10 February 1947	26 October 1951	4 years, 8 months and 16 days	Labour
	Florence Horsbrugh		2 November 1951	18 October 1954	2 years, 11 months and 16 days	Conservative

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_England .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Education#President_of_the_Board_of_Education .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_education_in_England#1944:_Butler .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Act_1944 .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Education_(United_Kingdom) .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_for_Education_and_Skills_(United_Kingdom) .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Education .

http://www.educationengland.org.uk/history/chapter08.html .

http://www.educationengland.org.uk/history/timeline.html .

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/englands-schools/englands-schools/ .