Department of Education (Isle of Man)

Department of Education (Isle of Man)
Department of Education and Children
Department overview
Formed 2011
Preceding Department Department of Education
Jurisdiction Isle of Man
Headquarters Hamilton House, Peel Road, Douglas, Isle of Man
Employees 1,745
Annual budget GBP 101.1m for 2011-2012
Minister responsible Hon Peter Karran MHK., Minister for Education and Children
Department executive Steven Dobson, Chief Executive Officer
Website
www.gov.im/dec


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The Department of Education and Children (Manx: Rheynn Ynsee) is a department of the Isle of Man Government.

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History

The Department of Education was renamed during the Government shake up of April 2010 as Department of Education and Children.

The Board of Education for the Isle of Man was established as a Board of Tynwald in 1872, and renamed the Council of Education in 1899. It was reconstituted and renamed the Isle of Man Board of Education in 1946. Its function was to oversee and provide funds to the elected local school boards, and after 1920 to the popularly elected Isle of Man Central Education Authority which replaced them. The Authority was renamed the Isle of Man Education Authority in 1923. The Isle of Man Education Act 1949, which was based on the UK 'Butler Act' of 1944, preserved this two-tier structure, the Board assuming the role of the Ministry of Education and the Authority that of a local education authority.

As the Isle of Man Government gained greater autonomy after 1950, a separate Education Authority of 24 elected members, parallel to and rivalling the House of Keys, became increasingly anomalous and unwieldy, but it proved very tenacious of life. An attempt to rationalise the system in 1968 resulted only in the merger of the Authority with the Board, which thereafter consisted of 5 "Tynwald members" appointed by Tynwald and 24 elected "non-Tynwald members", the former having control over finance and certain powers of veto.

The Department of Education was set up in 1987 as part of the new ministerial system, but a further attempt to remove the elected element was only partly successful. The Board was reconstituted as a body of 15 elected members with greatly reduced functions; in effect it became a panel from which members of the governing bodies of primary and secondary schools and the Isle of Man College were drawn. It was finally dissolved in June 2009.

Functions

  • Education
  • Schools
  • Nurseries
  • Isle of Man College
  • Student Awards
  • Isle of Man Business School
  • University Centre
  • Youth Services
  • Safeguarding Children

Previous Ministers

Previous Ministers for Education and Children

Previous Ministers for Education

Previous Chairmen of the Board of Education

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