Sentences with phrase «appointed education minister»

In 2001, she was appointed education minister and after the 2003 election, took over the justice portfolio in the Scottish Executive.

He had been appointed education minister eighteen months earlier.

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In an October 2014 by - election, Mr. Clark placed a strong second and came within 800 votes of defeating appointed Progressive Conservative Education Minister Gordon Dirks.

Jose Vasconcelos was appointed minister of education in 1920 and became the «apostle of the new secular religion.

Under the dynamic and able leadership of Prof. Naana Jane Opoku - Agyemang, the Minister for Education who President Mahama appointed to oversee the Education sector and actualize his vision, the Ministry of Education carried out the following activities for the new construction: 1) Prepared criteria for selecting Districts and towns to benefit from the project.

Later Dr. Nkrumah appointed Susan Al - Hassan as deputy Minister of Education and Minister of Social Welfare and Community Development between 1961 and 1967.

Appointed parliamentary secretary for pensions by Winston Churchill, in the coalition government of 1940, she went on to become minister for Education in the landmark Attlee government of 1945, introducing free milk for schoolchildren and raising the school leaving age.

Today David Cameron and his deputy prime minister appointed Hughes the government's «advocate for access to education».

[citation needed] When Jim Murphy was elected Scottish Labour Party leader in December 2014, Griffin was appointed as Shadow Minister for Learning, Science and Scotland's Languages, covering school education, qualifications, science, HM Inspectorate of Education, the Scottish Qualifications Authority and leducation, qualifications, science, HM Inspectorate of Education, the Scottish Qualifications Authority and lEducation, the Scottish Qualifications Authority and languages.

Following the 1992 general election he was appointed the Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Minister of State at the Department for Education, Emily Blatch.

Also in attendance at the ceremony were the State Governor, Senator Abiola Ajimobi, the outgoing Vice Chancellor and newly appointed Minister of Health, Professor Isaac Adewole, the incoming Vice Chancellor, Professor Idowu Olayinka, the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council Dr. Umar Musa Mustapha, the Minister of Education Professor Anthony Anwukah, who was represented by the Executive Secretary of the National University Commission (NUC) Professor Julius Okojie, His Royal Majesty, Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Samuel Odulana Odugade 1, who was represented by the Elerin Olubadan High Chief Abimbola Ajibola and the Owa Obokun of Ijesa land, Oba Adekunle Aromolaran.

Justine Greening has been appointed education secretary and minister for women and equalities, Number 10 said.

In the Third Assembly he was appointed Shadow Minister for Transport in the National Assembly for Wales from 7 July 2007 to 16 June 2008, and Shadow Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills from 16 June 2008.

They include Chi Onwurah, the former minister for culture and the digital economy, who wrote that it was «statistically interesting to say the least» that Labour's leader had made life difficult for two of the very few minority ethnic female MPs; and Pat Glass, who resigned as shadow education secretary in June two days after being appointed, in protest over Corbyn's leadership.

The Hemel Hempstead MP Mike Penning has been appointed a Home Office minister while the Grantham & Stamford MP Nick Boles is now the joint Minister of State at the Business and Education depaminister while the Grantham & Stamford MP Nick Boles is now the joint Minister of State at the Business and Education depaMinister of State at the Business and Education departments.

The ethics committee of the University of Bucharest has since come to a similar conclusion, and it is now up to the education minister, whom Ponta appointed, to make a decision on whether to retract the title.

The government's initial plan, announced 27 August, would have expanded TÜBA's membership from its current 140 members to 300: 100 appointed by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdoğan, 100 appointed by the government - run Council of Higher Education, and the rest elected by sitting members.

Greening was appointed as the Education Secretary as part of May's swift Cabinet reshuffle, following her appointment as Prime Minister.

The recently appointed Education Secretary Justine Greening has the opportunity to build on the Prime Minister's words and make them a reality in the education service by starting to value, support and invest in the teaching workforce which enhances the life chances of children and young people and makes an essential contribution to the economic prosperity of theEducation Secretary Justine Greening has the opportunity to build on the Prime Minister's words and make them a reality in the education service by starting to value, support and invest in the teaching workforce which enhances the life chances of children and young people and makes an essential contribution to the economic prosperity of theeducation service by starting to value, support and invest in the teaching workforce which enhances the life chances of children and young people and makes an essential contribution to the economic prosperity of the country.

The news comes after Deputy first minister John Swinney was appointed as education secretary last week.

South Australian Senator Simon Birmingham has been appointed the Minister for Education in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's brand new ministry.

In 2014 Simon was appointed to serve as the Assistant Minister for Education and Training, with specific responsibility for vocational education, apprenticeships, training anEducation and Training, with specific responsibility for vocational education, apprenticeships, training aneducation, apprenticeships, training and skills.

MPs have told the government to beef up its social mobility commission and appoint a «minister for social justice» to help tackle inequality in education.

The Department for Education initially defended the appointment, as did prime minister Theresa May and universities minister Jo Johnson, but they came increasingly under pressure to explain how he had been appointed to the role in the first place.

The former Liberal Democrat schools minister David Laws, who is now chair of the Education Policy Institute, was also appointed to the NSN's advisory council last September, along with ex-Ofsted chair Sally Morgan.