Minister for Education (New South Wales)
Minister for Education | |
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Department of Education | |
Style | The Honourable |
Nominator | Premier of New South Wales |
Appointer | Governor of New South Wales |
Inaugural holder |
John Plunkett as Chairman of the Board of National Education |
Formation | 15 July 1848 |
Deputy |
Leslie Williams (Assistant Minister, Early Childhood, Aboriginal Affairs) |
Website | Department of Education |
The New South Wales Minister for Education is a Minister of the Crown in the New South Wales Government and has responsibilities that includes all schools and institutes of higher education in NSW. He is the head of the Department of Education.
The current Minister for Education is Adrian Piccoli (Nationals) and is assisted by the Assistant Minister for Education, Minister for Early Childhood Education, and Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Leslie Williams (Nationals).[1]
Office history
The role of administering the education system in New South Wales began with the passing by the New South Wales Legislative Council of the National Education Board Act 1848, which emulated the 'National' system of education established in Ireland by Lord Stanley in 1831 through the Stanley letter. The Act established the Board of National Education with a Chairman of the Board appointed by the board members.[2] The Board was abolished by the colonial government of Henry Parkes in 1866 with the passing of the Public Schools Act 1866 and its functions were replaced by the Council of Education.[3]
Originally the bill for the act had included a measure to attach the role of President of the Council of Education ex officio to the Colonial Secretary. This measure was deleted in committee stage and the role of President was to be elected by the members of the council. This came to be seen by the first president, Parkes, as an indispensable way in which to protect the independence of the fledgling education system in the colony.[4] From 1873, with the independence of the role of President well established, the responsibility for education within the Parliament was held by the Minister for Justice and Public Instruction.
However this situation did not last and the independent council was abolished with the passing of the Public Instruction Act 1880 by Sir Henry Parkes' third government. The act dissolved the Council of Education and transferred its responsibilities to a new Minister for Public Instruction, who had the role of establishing for the first time a well-structured system of public education throughout the colony. The Minister now administered their portfolio through the new Department of Public Instruction, which became the "Department of Education" in 1915.[5] TAFE NSW, while previously an Education responsibility, is now the responsibility of the Minister for Skills, John Barilaro, since 2015.
List of Ministers
The following individuals have been appointed Minister for Education.[6]
Board of National Education/Council of Education
Office-holder[7] | Party affiliation | Period | Ministerial title |
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John Plunkett | No party | 15 July 1848 – 1 February 1858 | Chairman of the Board of National Education |
Sir Charles Nicholson | 1 February 1858 – 31 December 1858 | ||
George Holden | 1 January 1859 – 31 December 1859 | ||
Sir Charles Nicholson | 1 January 1860 – 31 December 1860 | ||
George Holden | 1 January 1861 – 31 December 1866 | ||
Henry Parkes | 1 January 1867 – 14 October 1870 | President of the Council of Education | |
John Smith | 14 October 1870 – 14 July 1871 | ||
George Wigram Allen | 14 July 1871 – 1 January 1872 | ||
John Smith | 1 January 1872 – 30 April 1880 |
Ministers for Education
Minister | Party affiliation | Period | Ministerial title |
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George Wigram Allen | No party | 9 December 1873 – 8 February 1875 | Minister for Justice and Public Instruction |
Joseph Docker | 9 February 1875 – 21 March 1877 | ||
Francis Suttor | 22 March 1877 – 16 August 1877 | ||
John Lackey | 17 August 1877 – 17 December 1877 | ||
Joseph Leary | 18 December 1877 – 20 December 1878 | ||
Francis Suttor | 21 December 1878 – 30 April 1880 | ||
Sir John Robertson | 1 May 1880 – 10 November 1881 | Minister for Public Instruction | |
Francis Suttor | 14 November 1881 – 4 January 1883 | ||
George Reid | 5 January 1883 – 6 March 1884 | ||
William Trickett | 2 May 1884 – 21 December 1885 | ||
James Young | 22 December 1885 – 25 February 1886 | ||
Arthur Renwick | 26 February 1886 – 19 January 1887 | ||
James Inglis | Free Trade | 20 January 1887 – 16 January 1889 | |
Francis Suttor | Protectionist | 17 January 1889 – 7 March 1889 | |
Joseph Carruthers | Free Trade | 8 March 1889 – 22 October 1891 | |
Francis Suttor | Protectionist | 23 October 1891 – 2 August 1894 | |
Jacob Garrard | Free Trade | 3 August 1894 – 15 August 1898 | |
James Hogue | 27 August 1898 – 13 September 1899 | ||
John Perry | Protectionist | 14 September 1899 – 14 June 1904 | |
John Fegan | Free Trade | 15 June 1904 – 29 August 1904 | |
Broughton O'Conor | Liberal Reform | 30 August 1904 – 13 May 1907 | |
James Hogue | 14 May 1907 – 20 October 1910 | ||
George Beeby | Labor | 21 October 1910 – 10 September 1911 | |
Ambrose Carmichael | 11 September 1911 – 26 November 1911 | ||
Frederick Flowers | 27 November 1911 – 29 February 1912 | ||
Ambrose Carmichael | 1 March 1912 – 5 March 1915 | ||
William Holman | 6 March 1915 – 15 March 1915 | ||
Arthur Griffith | 15 March 1915 – 7 November 1916 | ||
Augustus James | Nationalist | 15 November 1916 – 12 April 1920 | |
Thomas Mutch | Labor | 13 April 1920 – 20 December 1921 | |
Thomas Ley | Nationalist | 20 December 1921 | |
Thomas Mutch | Labor | 20 December 1921 – 13 April 1922 | |
Albert Bruntnell | Nationalist | 13 April 1922 – 17 June 1925 | |
Thomas Mutch | Labor | 17 June 1925 – 26 May 1927 | Minister for Education |
Billy Davies | 27 May 1927 – 18 October 1927 | Minister for Public Instruction | |
David Drummond | Country | 18 October 1927 – 3 November 1930 | Minister for Education |
Billy Davies | Labor | 4 November 1930 – 15 October 1931 | |
Labor (NSW) | 15 October 1931 – 13 May 1932 | ||
David Drummond | Country | 16 May 1932 – 16 May 1941 | |
Clive Evatt | Labor | 13 May 1941 – 8 June 1944 | |
Robert Heffron | 8 June 1944 – 31 May 1960 | ||
Ernest Wetherell | 31 May 1960 – 13 May 1965 | ||
Sir Charles Cutler | Country | 13 May 1965 – 19 June 1972 | |
Sir Eric Willis | Liberal | 19 June 1972 – 23 January 1976 | |
Neil Pickard | 23 January 1976 – 14 May 1976 | ||
Eric Bedford | Labor | 14 May 1976 – 29 February 1980 | |
Paul Landa | 29 February 1980 – 2 October 1981 | ||
Ron Mulock | 2 October 1981 – 10 February 1984 | ||
Eric Bedford | 10 February 1984 – 5 April 1984 | ||
Rodney Cavalier | 5 April 1984 – 21 March 1988 | ||
Terry Metherell | Liberal | 25 March 1988 – 24 July 1990 | Minister for Education and Youth Affairs |
Virginia Chadwick | 24 July 1990 – 26 May 1993 | Minister for School Education and Youth Affairs | |
26 May 1993 – 4 April 1995 | Minister for Education, Training and Youth Affairs | ||
John Aquilina | Labor | 4 April 1995 – 21 November 2001 | Minister for Education and Training |
John Watkins | 21 November 2001 – 2 April 2003 | ||
Andrew Refshauge | 2 April 2003 – 21 January 2005 | ||
Carmel Tebbutt | 21 January 2005 – 2 April 2007 | ||
John Della Bosca | 2 April 2007 – 8 September 2008 | ||
Verity Firth | 8 September 2008 – 28 March 2011 | ||
Adrian Piccoli | National | 3 April 2011 – present | Minister for Education |
Assistant Ministers
Occasionally, an Assistant Minister for Education would be appointed to assist the minister and act as a deputy.[6]
Minister | Party affiliation | Period | Ministerial title |
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John Daniel FitzGerald | Labor | 4 April 1916 – 18 July 1916 | Assistant Minister for Public Instruction |
Office not in use | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Wallace Fife | Liberal | 13 May 1965 – 27 June 1967 | Assistant Minister for Education |
Office not in use | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Bob Debus | Labor | 4 July 1986 – 21 March 1988 | Assistant Minister for Education |
Office not in use | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Kerry Chikarovski | Liberal | 3 July 1992 – 26 May 1993 | Assistant Minister for Education |
Office not in use | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Victor Dominello | Liberal | 23 April 2014 – 2 April 2015 | Assistant Minister for Education |
Leslie Williams | National | 2 April 2015 – present | Assistant Minister for Education Minister for Early Childhood Education |
Volunteering
Minister | Party affiliation | Period | Ministerial title |
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Linda Burney | Labor | 2 April 2007 – 5 September 2008 | Minister for Volunteering |
Graham West | 8 September 2008 – 4 December 2009 | ||
Peter Primrose | 4 December 2009 – 28 March 2011 |
References
- ↑ Hasham, Nicole (3 April 2015). "Premier Mike Baird's new NSW cabinet sworn in: Gladys Berejiklian and Gabrielle Upton first female Treasurer and Attorney-General". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
- ↑ "Board of National Education". NSW State Records. NSW Government. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- ↑ "Council of Education". NSW State Records. NSW Government. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- ↑ Manzer, Ronald A. (2003). Educational Regimes and Anglo-American Democracy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. p. 389.
- ↑ "Department of Public Instruction (1880-1915) Department of Education (1915-1989) Department of School Education (1989-1997)". NSW State Records. NSW Government. Retrieved 17 September 2015.
- 1 2 "NSW Parliamentary Record (11 August 1824 - November 2007)" (PDF). Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly. Parliament of New South Wales. VIII. November 2007. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
- ↑ "Government Schools of New South Wales form 1848 - Ministers". Department of Education. NSW Government. Retrieved 17 September 2015.