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The Department for Education and Skills is a department in the United Kingdom government created in 2001. The Department of Education and Science was created in 1964 with the merger of the offices of Minister of Education and the Minister of Science, with Herbert Bowden (later to become Baron Aylestone) as minister. In 1992 the responsibility for science was transferred to the Cabinet Office's Office of Public Service and the Department of Trade and Industry's Office of Science and Technology, and the department was renamed Department of Education. In 1995, in the reshuffle after the Conservative leadership election of that year, the department merged with the Department of Employment to become the Department for Education and Employment (DfEE). Most recently, after the 2001 general election, the employment functions were transferred to a newly created Department for Work and Pensions, with the DfEE becoming the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). DfES civil servants work in either one of four locations: London (Sanctuary Buildings or Caxton House, both close to Westminster Abbey), Sheffield (Moorfoot) Darlington (Mowden Hall)as well as in Government Offices.
Ministers Ministers in the Department for Education and Skills as of 5 May, 2006: Permanent Secretary Permanent Secretaries in the Department for Education and Skills: | ||||||||
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