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 M ...

. 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.

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 L ...

, 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

* Julie Edge MHK, 2021–present *

Alex Allinson Alexander John Allinson (born 1966) is an English-born Manx physician and politician who serves as an independent member of the House of Keys, representing Ramsey since 2016. Allinson serves on the Council of Ministers as the current Minist ...

MHK, 2020–2021 *

Graham Cregeen Graham Cregeen is a Manx politician who served as Member of the House of Keys for Arbory, Castletown & Malew in the Isle of Man until 2021. He was Minister for Justice and Home Affairs from 2020 to 2021. Political career In 2006 he was electe ...

MHK, 2016–2020 *

Tim Crookall Tim Crookall is a Member of the House of Keys (the lower house of Tynwald, the Isle of Man parliament) for Glenfaba & Peel, elected in the 2021 Manx general election. He was formerly Member of the House of Keys for Peel from 2006 to 2015 (succe ...

MHK, 2012–2016 * Peter Karran 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 MHK, 2006-2010 * David Anderson MHK, 2004-2006 * Steve Rodan MHK, 1999-2004 * Edgar Mann MHK, 1996-1999 *

Noel Cringle Noel Quayle Cringle 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 School and became a farmer ...

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 *

MHK, 1978-1982 *Unknown, 1976-1978 * Jean Thornton-Duesbery MHK, 1972-1976 * Victor Kneale MHK, 1962-1972 * Henry Corlett 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