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Department of Education and Science (Australia)

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Formed
  
13 December 1966

Dissolved
  
19 December 1972

Preceding Department
  
Department of Territories (I) - for education in the NT Department of the Interior (II) - for education in the ACT and Jervis Bay Prime Minister's Department - for the Education Division and the Office of Education

Superseding agency
  
Department of Education (I) Department of Science (I)

Jurisdiction
  
Commonwealth of Australia

Department executives
  
John Bunting, Secretary (1966‑67) Hugh Ennor, Secretary (1967‑72)

The Department of Education and Science was an Australian government department that existed between December 1966 and December 1972.

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Scope

Information about the department's functions and/or government funding allocation could be found in the Administrative Arrangements Orders, the annual Portfolio Budget Statements and in the Department's annual reports.

At its creation, the Department's functions were:

  • general education policy
  • education research
  • administration of various schemes of assistance for overseas students in Australia, particularly the Colombo Plan
  • Australian activities in relation to UNESCO
  • administration of scholarships for Australian students
  • administrative assistance for the committee concerned with the development of the concept and scheme of advanced education in Australia
  • science facilities grants to secondary schools both government and non-government
  • secretariat for the Australian Research Grants Committee

    • Structure

    The Department was a Commonwealth Public Service department, staffed by officials who were responsible to the Minister for Education and Science.

    References

    Department of Education and Science (Australia) Wikipedia
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