David Miliband became MINISTER OF STATE FOR SCHOOL STANDARDS in May 2002. He has responsibility for:

• Raising School Standards in Primary and Secondary schools
  
• Overall responsibility for raising school standards
  
• Literacy and Numeracy Strategies
  
• Key Stage 3 Strategy
  
• OFSTED
  
• Excellence in Cities
  
• Education Action Zones and excellence clusters
  
• Reform of Secondary Education
  
• Diversity in schools
  
• Specialist Schools
  
• Beacon Schools
  
• Academies
  
• Independent Schools

• Transforming the School Workforce
  
• Support staff in schools
  
• Teacher workload
  
• Teachers' pay, performance management and conditions
  
• Teacher recruitment and retention
  
• Teacher training
  
• National College for School Leadership
  
• Teacher Training Agency
  
• General Teaching Council
  
• Teachers' pensions
  
• Teacher misconduct
  
• Curriculum and Testing
  
• Overall policy on the National Curriculum (working with Cathy Ashton & Stephen Twigg)
  
• Testing and assessment
  
• Performance tables

• Reform of 14-19 Education and Training
  
• 14-19 organisation and curriculum
  
• Qualifications for 14-19 year olds
  
• Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
  
• Organisation and funding of sixth form study
  
• School Organisation and Funding
  
• Overall policy on school governance (working with Cathy Ashton)
  
• Overview of 5-16 admissions and school organisation policy
  
• Admissions and school organisation casework in primary and secondary
  
• Schools outside London
  
• LEA intervention
  
• School recurrent funding
  
• Capital and PPP/PFI