The Minister for Education & Science is the chief person at the Department of Education & Science is engaged in a wide range of activities covering pllicy planning, quality assurance and providing a broad range of services for education in the Republic of Ireland. The minister has previously been called the Ministers for Education. Duties:
To promote equity and inclusion
To promote lifelong learning
To plan for education that is relevany to personal, social, cultural and economic needs.
The Minister for Education and Science is the senior minister at the Department of Education and Science (An Roinn Oideachais agus EolaÃochta) in the Irish Government.
The Minister engages in a wide range of activities relating to education in the Republic of Ireland, including policy planning, quality assurance and the provision of a broad range of services.
Irish universities and colleges are to a large extent free of government control, with this being largely limited to policy formation and statistics preparation.
The secretary of state for education at the time was Margaret Thatcher, who went on to be a vociferous critic of comprehensive education.
These schools were introduced in to the Republic of Ireland in the 1966 by an initiative by Patrick Hillery, Minister for Education, to give a broader range of education compared to that of the vocational school system which was then the only system of schools completely controlled by the state.
Until this time education in Ireland was largely dominated by religious persuasion, and in particular the voluntary secondary school system was a particular realisation of this.
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