Department of Education, Sport and Culture

Department overview
Formed	April 1, 2010
Preceding Department	Department of Education;
Jurisdiction	Isle of Man
Headquarters	Thie Slieau Whallian, Foxdale Road, St John's, Isle of Man
Employees	1,326.68 FTE
Annual budget	93,968,800 gross (90,518,000 net) for 2015/16
Minister responsible	Hon Daphne Caine MHK, Minister for Education, Sport and Culture;
Department executive	Graham Kinrade, Chief Executive;
Website	www.gov.im/desc

Last updated September 06, 2024

The Department of Education, Sport and Culture (Rheynn Ynsee Spoyrt as Cultoor) is a department of the Isle of Man Government.

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.

Previous Ministers

Previous Ministers for Education and Children

Daphne Caine MHK, 2024 - present
Julie Edge MHK, 2021–2024
Alex Allinson MHK, 2020–2021
Graham Cregeen MHK, 2016–2020
Tim Crookall MHK, 2012–2016
Peter Karran MHK, 2011-2012
Eddie Teare MHK, 2010-2011

Previous Ministers for Education

Anne Craine MHK, 2006-2010
David Anderson MHK, 2004-2006
Steve Rodan MHK, 1999-2004
Edgar Mann MHK, 1996-1999
Noel Cringle MLC, 1995-1996
Hazel Hannan MHK, 1991-1995
Ron Cretney MHK, 1990-1991
Victor Kneale MHK, 1986-1990

Previous Chairmen of the Board of Education

Victor Kneale MHK, 1982-1986
Noel Cringle MHK, 1978-1982
Unknown, 1976-1978
Jean Thornton-Duesbery MHK, 1972-1976
Victor Kneale MHK, 1962-1972
Henry Corlett MHK CBE JP, 1951-1962

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References

1 2 "Budget Report and Estimates 2015-16" (PDF). Treasury. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.

External links

https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/education-sport-and-culture/

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[auto-1] 1 2 "Budget Report and Estimates 2015-16" (PDF). Treasury. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 16 July 2015.

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