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The Board of Education was created as an act of government re-organisation under the Board of Education Act 1899, it was one part of a series of reforms undertaken following the publication of the Bryce Report 1895 on establishing an organised system of Secondary Education in England. The new Board of Education consolidated and replaced two existing government departments: - (i) the Department for Education & (ii) the Department for Art and Science. It additionally absorbed the powers and responsibilities over education from the Board of Agriculture and the Charities Commission. Ministerial governance was provided through the new roles of President of the Board of Education and Secretary of the Board of Education, these replaced the role of Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education. The Board also gained the obligation to establish a consultative committee to advise the board and help set-up a register of teachers. The majority of the committee was to be made of learned members qualified to represent universities and other educational institutes.
The objective of the reform was to create a single unified government body to oversea the nation's Education and replace the previous disparate situation of multiple government bodies with both over-lapping responsibilities but more often than not with gaps where no government body had responsibility over particular aspects of Education. The Board of Education lasted forty-five years until it was replaced by the Ministry of Education in 1944.