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2 unusual facts about Education Secretary


Humayun Kabir

Later, he was a Joint Education Adviser, Education Secretary and then Chairman of the University Grants Commission in Delhi.

Mark Carlisle

Thatcher writes in her memoirs that Carlisle "had not proved a particularly effective Education Secretary" and to this effect he was dismissed in the September 1981 Cabinet reshuffle.


Count On

Count On is a major mathematics education project in the United Kingdom which was announced by education secretary David Blunkett at the end of 2000.

Tim Brighouse

Whilst he was at Birmingham, he was described by Conservative Education Secretary John Patten as a "madman....wandering the streets, frightening the children".

UCL Academy

On 6 August 2010 Education Secretary Michael Gove announced that the Academy would receive a requested £30 million capital allocation and would therefore proceed.


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A Feast at Midnight

It is notable for featuring a cameo by future Education Secretary Michael Gove.

Advanced Childcare

An Ofsted review of the child care industry in 2013, commissioned by Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, reported that one in three homes run by Advanced Childcare "failed to be classified as 'good' or 'outstanding' by the education watchdog."

Alan Whitehead

He voted for the Bill when Alan Johnson, the new Education Secretary, accepted many of the alternative white paper’s proposals.

Alice Miles

Miles was appointed in September 2012 to a paid post (alongside Dr Tim Leunig), advising the Education Secretary Michael Gove and Liberal Democrat Minister of State for Schools David Laws.

American Board for Certification of Teacher Excellence

In October 2003, U.S. Education Secretary Rod Paige announced the American Board would receive a $35 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for its continued development of a fast-track route into the teaching profession.

Avrom Lasarow

DNA Bioscience was known for the recruitment of British MP David Blunkett, education secretary in Tony Blair’s first cabinet in 1997 (Bartlett, 2012), as a non-executive director, who bought £15 000 of shares two weeks before the 2005 UK general election.

Economic and Social Research Council

In 1981, the Education Secretary Sir Keith Joseph asked Lord Rothschild to lead a review into the future of the SSRC.

Estelle Morris

She had made a commitment to the then Conservative Shadow Education Secretary, David Willetts to resign if the literacy and numeracy targets were not met.

High Tech High School

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".

Khan Abdul Ali Khan

Khan Abdul Ali Khan (20 August 1922 - 19 February 1997) was a Pakistani educationist, former Principal of Islamia College Peshawar, Fazle Haq College Mardan, Aitchison College, former Vice Chancellor of Peshawar University, Gomal University and former Education Secretary.

London School of Business and Finance

David Blunkett, the former UK Home Secretary and Education Secretary, was appointed as a visiting lecturer at LSBF in 2011.

Rabbi Pesach Raymon Yeshiva

In September 2013, the yeshiva was one of 15 schools in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as honoring schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".

RateMyTeachers

In April 2007 the British education secretary Alan Johnson said that the online harassment of teachers performed by sites such as RateMyTeachers.com needs to stop.

Stella Greenall

In 1975, Greenall was persuaded to leave NUS to work as an advisor to the then Labour Education Secretary, Fred Mulley.

The Higher Mortals

On the day that education secretary Mrs Fry (who somewhat resembles the then government minister Virginia Bottomley) arrives to speak at the school's Speech Day, she is kidnapped by the inner-city children and tells them, incorrectly, that she will announce that the scheme of sending inner-city children to Crabbe College was a pointless waste of time and that the school was outmoded anyway.

Wildwood High School

In September 2013, the school was one of 15 in New Jersey to be recognized by the United States Department of Education as part of the National Blue Ribbon Schools Program, an award called the "most prestigious honor in the United States' education system" and which Education Secretary Arne Duncan described as honoring schools that "represent examples of educational excellence".