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An education ministry is a national or subnational government agency politically responsible for education. Various other names are commonly used to identify such agencies, such as Ministry of Education, Department of Education, and Ministry of Public Education, and the head of such an agency may be a minister of education or secretary of education.
The minister has oversight over skills and higher and further education, including universities and the Student Loans Company. Under New Labour, the role was known as Minister of State for Higher Education and Minister of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
The Department for Education (DfE) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.It is responsible for child protection, child services, education (compulsory, further, and higher education), apprenticeships, and wider skills in England.
In the Brown ministry (2007 to 2010), the position of Minister of State for Schools and Learning worked at the Department for Children, Schools and Families. In the Cameron ministries , the role was known as Minister of State for Schools .
Student affairs, student support, or student services is the department or division of services and support for student success at institutions of higher education to enhance student growth and development. [1] People who work in this field are known as student affairs educators, student affairs practitioners, or student affairs professionals.
A ministry is composed of employed officials, known as civil servants, and is politically accountable through a minister . Most major ministries are headed by a Cabinet Minister, who sits in the Union Council of Ministers, and is typically supported by a team of junior ministers called the Ministers of State.
The department was charged with administering the government's support programs for higher education, previously the responsibility of the Department of Education. Bill Davis, the inaugural minister, was the Minister of Education at the time and continued to hold the position after the department's establishment.
A devolved minister took office on 2 December 1999. Devolution was suspended for four periods, during which the department came under the responsibility of direct rule ministers from the Northern Ireland Office: between 12 February 2000 [11] and 30 May 2000; [12] on 11 August 2001; [13] [14] on 22 September 2001; [15] [16]