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What does DES stand for?

Department of Education and Science


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Samples in periodicals archive:
Advisory group Paul Rellis, managing director of Microsoft Ireland, chaired the advisory group, comprised of members of ICT Ireland, the Telecommunications and Internet Federation, the Irish Software Association, the Department of Education and Science, the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, and the National Centre for Technology in Education.
The decline in passenger numbers has also resulted in less revenue being generated for the Department of Education and Science.
This is the first bundle to be released under the Irish Schools programme by the Department of Education and Science and the National Development Finance Agency (NDFA) and is a key component of Ireland's National Development Plan.
He was junior minister for the department of trade and industry from 1982 to 1988 and for the department of education and science from 1988 to 1989.
Assistant head John Ledger, said the centre, funded by governors, The Big Lottery and Department of Education and Science, had exceeded expectations.
New figures from the Department of Education and Science show the total is now over 700,000 - an increase of a third in the past five years.
In the late 1980s Mrs (now Dame) Angela Rumbold, as minister of state at the then Department of Education and Science in the third Thatcher government, said her 'real ambition in life is that there should be no need for an independent sector as the state sector will provide parents with the standards and choice currently provided by the independent sector'.
Playing for Success is a Department of Education and Science supported initiative first set up in 1997 in partnership with the FA, the Premier League, the Nationwide League and local education authorities.

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