Sentences with phrase «then education secretary»

Visitors to this year's RA Summer Exhibition will remember Bob and Roberta Smith RA's painting Letter to Michael Gove, which he created in 2011 as an impassioned response to the then Education Secretary's proposals for the British secondary school syllabus.

In 2007, Anthony was singled out by then Education Secretary Alan Johnson as the not - so - secret weapon to get boys reading.

There were many reasons for this, including the fact that in 2012, Arne Duncan, then the education secretary, began doling out comprehensive waivers from the provisions to states that agreed to adopt other accountability reforms, such as changing how teachers are evaluated.

Then education secretary Nicky Morgan named five «top performing» academy sponsors as beneficiaries of the funding, and tasked them with «improving performance for pupils in some of the most challenging and disadvantaged areas of the country».

Prime Minister David Cameron and then Education Secretary Michael Gove were at the opening of Perry Beeches III free school in 2013

Then Education Secretary Arne Duncan said: «The path to success has never been clearer.»

The then education secretary, Kenneth Clarke, changed them to written tests which all pupils could take simultaneously.

But the plans were rejected by then education secretary Nicky Morgan — who wrote to prime minister David Cameron stating herfo «profound concern».

However, when he wrote to then education secretary Morgan, chief inspector Wilshaw emphasised that the situation remained fragile, with heads in East Birmingham reporting that the situation had «gone underground».

In 2015, the NAHT conference took place just a few days before the general election, but Nicky Morgan, the then education secretary, appeared at the event, as did schools minister David Laws.

The national curriculum was given the go - ahead in 1988 under education reforms by the then education secretary Kenneth Baker and started to be taught in schools in September 1989.

In 2011, Gove, then education secretary, described the policy as a way of «meeting parents» desire for a good local school — a school that's easy to get to, that feels like part of the community».

The new GCSE grading scheme is part and parcel of a new curriculum which was introduced in England's schools in 2014 by the then Education Secretary Michael Gove.

In 2011 the then Education Secretary, Michael Gove, ordered an investigation into the exam system after the Telegraph exposed examiners giving teachers secret advice on how to improve their exam results.

These are known as «converter academies» - and were then Education Secretary Michael Gove's big change to the system.

Tristram Hunt, the shadow Education Secretary, has been critical of the Priority School Building Programme, emphasising how the scheme was «limping along at a staggeringly slow pace», with only one in four schools from the initial phase actually under construction work, three years on from the announcement made by then Education Secretary Michael Gove.

If Future Schools Trust is unable to show progress before 13 February then the education secretary will have the power to appoint new governors to the school.

The project similarly resonates with the English Building Schools for the Future, which was axed by then Education Secretary Michael Gove and replaced with the PSBP.

Hill was forced to resign in 2014 after a Downing Street inquiry found she had been the source of briefing against Michael Gove, then education secretary, in a high - profile spat over Islamic extremism in schools.

Meanwhile Gove, then education secretary, had to apologise to David Cameron for overshadowing the Queen's Speech.

The Government did acknowledge this initially, insisting that it was a necessary price to pay for achieving the desired goal in primary schools:» Either they want us to ring fence ear - marked money and say «you can only spend it on class size» or they want the freedom to spend it in the school on raising standards», then Education Secretary David Blunkett argued in April 2000.

If Jeremy Corbyn is doing really well then education secretary Justine Greening could be the first big beast to fall in Putney.

Not exact matches

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos faced student criticism and then abruptly walked out of her own press conference during a visit on Wednesday to the Parkland, Fla. high school where 17 died in a mass shooting last month.

He will then meet with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, participates in a federalism event with governors and signs an education federalism executive order, drops by an all - senators briefing on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, holds a National Teacher of the Year event, and conducts several briefings.

Trump Vice President Mike Pence meet around noon, and then have lunch with U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

He was a member of the Health Select Committee from 2001 until 2003, then serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to Home Secretary David Blunkett until 2004, when he became PPS to Education Secretary Ruth Kelly.

[39] As Education Secretary, he had repeatedly expressed the intention that, were he to become Home Secretary, he would make the then - incumbent Jack Straw, who had been criticised for being hard - line, seem over-liberal.

Dame Angela served as Deputy Tory Chairman and as a Home Office Minister but will be best remembered for her time as Minister of State for Education and then Deputy for the Secretary of State for Education.

The pilot is for a five - year period, and after the third year, the federal education secretary will do a study to see how the states are doing and could then open it up to all states, according to federal lawmakers.

Des McNulty (born 28 July 1952, Stockport (then Cheshire, England), UK) is a Labour politician, and was a Member of the Scottish Parliament for the Clydebank and Milngavie constituency from 1999 to 2011, serving as Labour's Shadow Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning until he was defeated for re-election at the 2011 election.

Her about - turn will bring to mind the actions of education secretary Nicky Morgan, who also voted against equal marriage and then indicated she had changed her mind after being given the equalities portfolio last year.

Angela Eagle, the present Shadow Leader of the House could then shadow a substantial spending department; she should replace the lacklustre Stephen Twigg as Shadow Education Secretary.

The shadow education secretary then either needs to dance on the head of a pin or disown Burnham.

Few would have wagered on the education secretary becoming the first senior minister to stumble, but his serial issuing of error - strewn lists, raising then shattering the hopes of schools longing for new buildings, has been a gift.

She later worked as an advisor to David Willetts, the then Shadow Secretary of state for Children, Schools and Families, focusing mainly on special needs education, and for the Young Foundation and the National Autistic Society.

The firings of Hinchcliff and her colleague took place under then - Education Commissioner David Steiner, while Hyer - Spencer and Storelli - Castro were hired under Steiner's successor, John King, who is now President Obama's education sEducation Commissioner David Steiner, while Hyer - Spencer and Storelli - Castro were hired under Steiner's successor, John King, who is now President Obama's education seducation secretary.

From 1998 through 2002, József Pálinkás served first as Secretary of State, then as Cabinet Minister of Education in the Hungarian Government.

Back in 2009, then - Secretary of Education Arne Duncan had hoped this key initiative would yield «transformation, not tinkering,» aiming to «turn around 1,000 schools every year for five years.»

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In «Notes From the Revolution,» (Commentary, July 27, 2005), Eugene W. Hickok, who was then - U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige's deputy in President Bush's first term, offers a delightful fiction about the «revolutionary» impact of the Education Leaders Council on American schooling during the past decade.

All cases will go before the Education Secretary, who will then decide if prosecution should be pursued.

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He was recommended to then - AEI president Chris DeMuth by former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Chester Finn, M.A.T.» 67, Ed.D.» 70.

Last week, on April 26, we marked the 20th anniversary of A Nation at Risk, the report of the National Commission on Excellence in Education, which was created by then - U.S. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell during the Reagan administration.

A still earlier example, with which I was involved and then - Education Secretary Bill Bennett was deeply involved, was the promulgation of recommended K - 8 and high school curricula by Bennett and the Education Department in the late 1980s.

Then two respected officials — California's secretary of education and Florida's commissioner of education — discussed their experiences.

«If I were U.S. Secretary of Education,» Nancy Flanagan told Education World, «job number one would be to surround myself with the best advisors possible — outstanding classroom teachers — and then strive to put their expertise to good use in the policy arena.

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The conference concluded with a panel on the lessons that can be learned about K - 12 reform from the George W. Bush and Barack Obama years and then remarks by, and a discussion with, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.