The Department of Education, Sport and Culture (''Rheynn Ynsee Spoyrt as Cultoor'') is a department of the

Isle of Man Government The Isle of Man Government ( gv, Reiltys Ellan Vannin) is the government of the Isle of Man. The formal head of the Isle of Man Government is the Lieutenant Governor, the personal representative of Charles III. The executive head is the Chief Mi ...

. The department was formerly the Department of Education and Children and was renamed as the Department of Education, Sport and Culture under Statutory Document No. 2017/0325 with effect from November 2017. The current Minister (since 2021) is

Julie Edge Julie Marie Edge is a Manx politician. She represented Onchan in the House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. ...

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

gained greater autonomy after 1950, a separate Education Authority of 24 elected members, parallel to and rivalling the

House of Keys The House of Keys () is the directly elected lower house of Tynwald, the parliament of the Isle of Man, the other branch being the Legislative Council. History The oldest known reference to the name is in a document of 1417, written in ...

, 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 University College Isle of Man (UCM; gv, Colleish-Olloscoill Ellan Vannin) is the primary centre for tertiary, vocational education, higher education and adult education on the British Crown dependency of the Isle of Man, located in the Manx ca ...

were drawn. It was finally dissolved in June 2009.

Previous Ministers

Previous Ministers for Education and Children

MHK, 2021–present * Alex Allinson MHK, 2020–2021 * Graham Cregeen MHK, 2016–2020 * Tim Crookall MHK, 2012–2016 *

Peter Karran Peter Karran (born 20 May 1960) is a Manx politician, who is a former leader of the Liberal Vannin Party and former Minister of Education and Children. He was a Member of the House of Keys for Middle, and then for Onchan, from 1985 to 2016. ...

MHK, 2011-2012 *

Eddie Teare William Edward "Eddie" Teare, (born 10 May 1948) is a Manx politician, who was the Minister of the Treasury from 2011 to 2016 after holding other ministerial positions. He was MHK (Member of the House of Keys) for Ayre from 2004 to 2016, having ...

MHK, 2010-2011

Previous Ministers for Education

Anne Craine Anne Valerie Craine (born 30 April 1954) is a Justice of the Peace from the Isle of Man. Early life Craine went to primary school at Dhoon School before attending Ramsey Grammar School after which she studied at St Godric’s Secretarial Col ...

MHK, 2006-2010 *

David Anderson David Anderson may refer to: People In academia or science *David Anderson (academic) (born 1952), American college professor *David Anderson (engineer) (1880–1953), Scottish civil engineer and lawyer *David Anderson, 2nd Viscount Waverley (1911� ...

MHK, 2004-2006 *

Steve Rodan Stephen Charles Rodan MLC (born 19 April 1954) is a Manx politician who served as the President of Tynwald from 2016 to 2021 and is a former Minister of the Isle of Man Government and former MHK for the constituency of Garff. He was firs ...

MHK, 1999-2004 *

Edgar Mann Lieutenant Colonel Dr Edgar John Mann MB (24 June 1926 – 21 June 2013) was a British politician, and Chairman of the Executive Council of the Isle of Man, the then head of the island's Government. Early life and career Born on 24 June ...

MHK, 1996-1999 *

Noel Cringle Noel Quayle Cringle Order of the British Empire, OBE (16 December 1937 – 28 August 2021) was President of Tynwald, the legislature of the Isle of Man, from 2000 to 2011. Cringle was born and raised in Ballabeg, educated at Castle Rushen High ...

MLC, 1995-1996 *

Hazel Hannan Hazel Hannan, former Member of the House of Keys (MHK), was previously the Deputy Speaker of the House of Keys and an Education Minister and then Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry in the Isle of Man Government. She was elected in ...

MHK, 1991-1995 *

Ron Cretney Louis Ronald Cretney was a former Minister in the Isle of Man Government. Ron Cretney was born in Douglas and educated in Hanover Street School and Douglas High School before leaving the Island to train as a teacher at the Chester Diocesan Train ...

MHK, 1990-1991 *

Victor Kneale George Victor Harris Kneale (born 12 January 1918, died 8 April 2007) was a Manx politician and former Speaker of the House of Keys and Education Minister. Victor Kneale was elected MHK for Douglas West in 1962. He was Chairman of the Board ...

MHK, 1986-1990

Previous Chairmen of the Board of Education

MHK, 1982-1986 *

MHK, 1978-1982 *Unknown, 1976-1978 *

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MHK, 1972-1976 *

MHK, 1962-1972 *

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MHK CBE JP, 1951-1962

References

External links

* https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/departments/education-sport-and-culture/ {{Education in Crown dependencies Government of the Isle of Man Educational organisations based in the Isle of Man