The Scottish Government Education Directorates were a group of the
civil service directorates in the
Scottish Government. The Directorates were titled Children, Young People and Social Care; Schools; and Lifelong Learning. They were responsible for
education in Scotland
Education in Scotland is overseen by the Scottish Government and its executive agency Education Scotland. Education in Scotland has a history of universal provision of public education, and the Scottish education system is distinctly diffe ...
;
social work care for children and young people and
lifelong learning. In December 2010 these functions were taken on by the
Learning and Justice Directorates
The Scottish Government Education and Justice Directorates are a group of civil service Directorates in the Scottish Government created by a re-organisation.
The individual directorates within the overarching Education and Justice Directorates ...
.
The Directorates reported to the Director-General
Leslie Evans. The
Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning
The Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills, commonly referred to as the Education Secretary, is a position in the Scottish Government Cabinet responsible for all levels of education in Scotland. The Cabinet Secretary is supported by the Mi ...
is
Mike Russell.
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/ref> and he was then supported by the Minister for Children and Early Years, Adam Ingram MSP and by the Minister for Skills and Lifelong Learning
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, Angela Constance
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MSP at that time.
History
The Scottish Education Department (SED) came into being as the body responsible for schooling in Scotland
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when it was formed from the Church of Scotland
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's Board of Education for Scotland in 1872.
The Education (Scotland) Act 1872
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continued to make education compulsory in Scotland and took over the running of schools from the Church of Scotland. Burgh as well as parish
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schools now came under School Boards
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The elected council determines the educational policy in a small regional are ...
run by local committees. It was originally called the Scotch Education Department (see Scotch), was a committee of Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and had its offices in London
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. In 1885 the department became a responsibility of the new ministerial post of Secretary for Scotland, under whom the Scottish Office
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was set up in Dover House
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, Whitehall
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, London.
In 1918 the department was moved to Edinburgh
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and the name was changed to the Scottish Education Department, in accordance with Scottish usage. The Secretary for Scotland became the Secretary of State for Scotland in 1926. The department was renamed the Scottish Office Education Department (SOED) in 1991, and the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department (SOEID) in 1995.
With devolution in 1999, the new Scottish Executive set up the Scottish Executive Education Department (SEED) to oversee school education, whilst the Scottish Executive Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department – now Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department (ETLLD) – took over responsibility from the former SED for further
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and higher education
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, and also maintenance grants for Scottish university
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students, through the Student Awards Agency for Scotland
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, an Executive Agency
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of ETLLD. In May 2007, the new Scottish National Party government abolished the departments within the Scottish Executive. The Scottish Government is now structured around individual Directorates, grouped for some purposes under a Director-General.
Sponsorship of Agencies and Public Bodies
The Directorates sponsor the following executive agencies:
* Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education
Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Education (HMIe) was an executive agency of the Scottish Government, responsible for the inspection of public and independent, primary and secondary schools, as well as further education colleges, community lear ...
* Social Work Inspection Agency
The Social Work Inspection Agency (SWIA) was an inspectorate in Scotland between 2005 and 2011.
History
It was established as an inspectorate in April 2005 by the Scottish Government to scrutinise all aspects of social services provided by Sco ...
* Student Awards Agency for Scotland
Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS) is an Executive agency of the Scottish Government. It supports eligible Scottish students by paying their tuition fees, as well as offering bursaries and supplementary grants. It also assesses students ap ...
They also provide funding for the following public bodies:
* General Teaching Council for Scotland
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* Learning and Teaching Scotland
Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS or LT Scotland) was a non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government, formed by the merger of the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum (SCCC) and the Scottish Council for Educational Technol ...
* National Grid for Learning Scotland
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* Scottish Children's Reporter Administration
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* Scottish Qualifications Authority
References
See also
*Education in Scotland
Education in Scotland is overseen by the Scottish Government and its executive agency Education Scotland. Education in Scotland has a history of universal provision of public education, and the Scottish education system is distinctly diffe ...
* School board (Scotland)
*Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework
The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) is the national credit transfer system for all levels of qualifications in Scotland. Awards are classified under the framework at ''levels'', and study undertaken at that level is valued ...
* Scottish Qualifications Authority
External links
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Defunct departments of the Scottish Government
Education in Scotland