* Commission Reports: A National Dialogue: The Secretary of Education's Commission on the Future of Higher Education, United States Department of Education, 2006.

* Spellings, Margaret, " A Test of Leadership: Charting the Future of U. S. Higher Education ", A Report of the Commission Appointed by Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, September 2006.

* Stanley Broadbridge, General Secretary from 1977-8 of the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education ( NATFHE )

The Open University is also one of only three United Kingdom higher education institutions to gain accreditation in the United States of America by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, an institutional accrediting agency, recognized by the United States Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation.

In June 2004 a personal conflict between State Secretary for Higher Education Nijs and Minister of Education Van der Hoeven caused the departure of Nijs.

This in turn caused a reshuffle: State Secretary for Social Affairs Rutte became State Secretary for Higher Education and Henk van Hoof ( a state secretary in previous cabinets ) became State Secretary for Social Affairs.

State Secretary for Higher Education Mark Rutte left the cabinet to become parliamentary leader of the VVD on 28 June 2006.

The ministerial office of the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills was, in late 2009, amalgamated into the new ministerial office of the resurgent politician, Peter Mandelson, ennobled as Lord Mandelson as the newly created Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills-itself an amalgamation of the responsibilities of the Secretaries of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and Innovation, Universities and Skills-the Secretary of State has remit over Higher Education policy as well as British business and enterprise.

Prior to becoming president, he served as the Executive Secretary of the Department of Higher Education of the National Education Association for seven years.

In March 2012, it was announced the college has been granted the university designation by the New Jersey State Secretary for Higher Education and will change the school's name.

They all receive accreditation from the Council on Podiatric Medical Education, which is recognized by the U. S. Secretary of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation.

The Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended, defines a " part B institution " as: "... any historically black college or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association determined by the Secretary Education to be a reliable authority as to the quality of training offered or is, according to such an agency or association, making reasonable progress toward accreditation.

During the 2001 Parliament he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Alan Johnson, an old friend from his days as a union official who was successively Higher Education Minister and then Secretary of State for Work and Pensions but in 2005 he stood down from this role to become a British representative on the Council of Europe.

He was Parliamentary Private Secretary ( PPS ) to Bill Rammell MP, Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education.

* Paul Locatelli, S. J., Former President of Santa Clara University, Secretary of Higher Education for the Society of Jesus

The Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U. S. Secretary of Education and the Commission on Recognition of Postsecondary Accreditation.

Lincoln University is listed in the U. S. Department of Education Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs which identifies it as an institution or program which " is, or was, accredited by an accrediting agency or state approval agency recognized by the U. S. Secretary of Education as a ' reliable authority as to the quality of postsecondary education ' within the meaning of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended.

The President has also called upon the Attorney General, the Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and the Secretary of Labor to coordinate their efforts `` in the development of a program of federal leadership to assist states and local communities in their efforts to cope with the problem.

Cross, the Home Secretary, Disraeli's government introduced various reforms, including the Artisan's and Labourers ' Dwellings Improvement Act 1875, the Public Health Act 1875, the Sale of Food and Drugs Act ( 1875 ), and the Education Act ( 1876 ).

In 1937 Bimba founded the school Centro de Cultura Física e Luta Regional, with official permission of Salvador ’ s Secretary of Education ( Secretaria da Educação, Saúde e Assistência de Salvador ).

That year he was made Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Education Secretary Anthony Crosland, with whom Dewar later confessed to never really establishing a rapport, saying Crosland was a " very odd man ".

Gurgenidze implemented only two changes in the Cabinet of Georgia so far, replacing Alexandre Lomaia, the former Minister for Education and Science and new Secretary of National Security Council with Maia Miminoshvili, former Head of the National Assessment and Examination Centre ( NAEC ).

The current board consists of 43 members elected to five-year terms, 25 life members who vote until their 75th birthday, 3 elected officers ( President, Treasurer, and Secretary ), and 4 ex officio members ( the president of the alumni association, the Governor of Massachusetts, the Massachusetts Secretary of Education, and the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ).

In January 1965 Patrick Gordon Walker resigned as Foreign Secretary and in the ensuing reshuffle Wilson offered Jenkins the Department for Education and Science ; however.

On 19 May 2006, the British Education Secretary, Alan Johnson, announced new minimum nutrition standards for school food.

* Secretary of State for Education, Culture, University and Justice

* Former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett

When Vallas left the post to run for governor, Daley chose the relatively obscure Arne Duncan, now the U. S. Secretary of Education, to lead the district.

In 1997, Congress asked the Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development ( NICHD ) at the National Institutes of Health, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to convene a national panel to assess the effectiveness of different approaches used to teach children to read.

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The United States Secretary of Education is the head of the Department of Education.

The United States Secretary of Education deals with Education policy.

The current Secretary of Education is Arne Duncan.

The senior policy officer may be moved to think hard about a problem by any of an infinite variety of stimuli: an idea in his own head, the suggestions of a colleague, a question from the Secretary or the President, a proposal by another department, a communication from a foreign government or an American ambassador abroad, the filing of an item for the agenda of the United Nations or of any other of dozens of international bodies, a news item read at the breakfast table, a question to the President or the Secretary at a news conference, a speech by a Senator or Congressman, an article in a periodical, a resolution from a national organization, a request for assistance from some private American interests abroad, et cetera, ad infinitum.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, former President of the Ford Motor Company, comes from a generation different from that of Eisenhower's own first Secretary of Defense, Charles Wilson, who had been head of General Motors.

Armed with constitutional power to negate the Executive's foreign policy, the Senate carries a big stick and is easily provoked to use it on the State Department's back, or on the head of the Secretary of State.

Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ( who was famously mistaken for a " recent American immigrant " by French President Nicolas Sarkozy ), said " descendants of slaves did not get much of a head start, and I think you continue to see some of the effects of that.

The Secretary General of the Council is head of the General Secretariat, Uwe Corsepius since June 2011 ; previously the post holder was also the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, President of the European Defence Agency and the Western European Union.

While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China ( the highest position in Communist China ), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1992.

As First Secretary, Hoxha was de facto head of state and the most powerful man in the country.

For example, Nikita Khrushchev never headed the Supreme Soviet but was First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party ( party leader ) and Chairman of the Council of Ministers ( head of government ).

Goebbels was forced to ally himself with Göring to thwart a bid for power by Bormann, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery and Secretary to the Führer.

However, the inability of Himmler to persuade Hitler to cease his support of Bormann, the defection of SS generals such as Obergruppenführer Ernst Kaltenbrunner, the Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and his powerful subordinate Gruppenführer Heinrich Müller, head of the Gestapo, to Bormann, soon persuaded Goebbels to align himself with the Secretary to the Führer at the end of 1944, thus accepting his subordinate position.

* 1946 – Enver Hoxha, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Albania, declares the People's Republic of Albania with himself as head of state.

Stalin's death on 5 March 1953 prompted major changes in the Soviet leadership and in March 1953, Voroshilov was approved as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet ( i. e., the head of state ) with Nikita Khrushchev as First Secretary of the Communist Party and Georgy Malenkov as Premier of the Soviet Union.

Various articles group lists by title, function or topic: e. g. abdication, assassinated persons, cabinet ( government ), chancellor, ex-monarchs ( 20th century ), head of government, head of state, lieutenant governor, mayor, military commanders, minister ( and ministers by portfolio below ), order of precedence, peerage, president, prime minister, Reichstag participants ( 1792 ), Secretary of State.

The Executive Secretary, who is appointed by the Council, is the executive, administrative, and financial head of the Council.

A number of government officials were detained after the coup including the head of the Supreme Court, Mahfoud Ould Lemrabott, and the Secretary of State for Women's Affairs, Mintata Mint Hedeid.

The direction that the foreign policy will take lies on the President, as the head of state, and it is executed through the Secretary of Foreign Affairs.

In 1961, U Thant, then Burma's Permanent Representative to the United Nations and former Secretary to the Prime Minister, was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations ; he was the first non-Westerner to head any international organization and would serve as UN Secretary-General for ten years.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, or Gorbachov ( more accurately reflecting the pronunciation of his name ) (; born 2 March 1931 ), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

Although it had no formal head, the General Secretary of the Party, who was almost always head of the Central Committee, functioned as its de facto chairman.

Its first Director was Michael L ' Estrange, who was later Cabinet Secretary, High Commissioner to London, and head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.