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unusual facts about Secretary of State for Education



Circular 10/70

Circular 10/70 was an attempt by Margaret Thatcher as Secretary for Education in 1970 to reverse the effects of Circular 10/65 (sometimes called the Crosland Circular since it was issued by Anthony Crosland as Secretary for Education under Wilson in 1965) and Circular 10/66.

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.

Demography of the United Kingdom

The Secretary of State for Education and the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills are responsible to the UK Parliament for education in England, though the day to day administration and funding of state schools is the responsibility of Local Education Authorities.

Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families

On May 12, 2010, the Department was again renamed and Michael Gove was appointed Secretary of State for Education.

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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Building Schools for the Future

On 5 July 2010 the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, announced that following a review, the Building Schools for the Future programme was to be scrapped.

Gemma Hussey

During a meeting with Keith Joseph, Margaret Thatcher's Secretary of State for Education, Joeseph boasted to Hussey, that he held surgeries once a month, which was considered a high number in Britain.

Lord Patten

John Patten, Baron Patten, UK Conservative politician, former Secretary of State for Education

Northern Ireland Schools Debating Competition

Guest adjudicators at the final have included Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State for Education; Viscount Cranborne, now the Marquess of Salisbury and former Leader of the House of Lords; the historian, Andrew Roberts; Guy Black, Lord Black of Brentwood, Executive Director of the Telegraph Media Group; author and parliamentarian Lord Dobbs, and the acclaimed journalist and leader writer of The Times, Rosemary Righter.