The government has finally confirmed portfolios for new Department for Education ministers appointed in Liz Truss’s first reshuffle. Andrea Jenkyns remains minister for skills – although her title has been shortened from “minister for skills, further and higher education”. Meanwhile Baroness Barran – who had been minister for the school system – is now minister for the school and college system. According to the DfE website, Jenkyns’ role now also includes strategy for post-16 education and covers funding for educating or training 16- to 19-year-olds, however higher education reform and Covid-19 recovery for further and higher education are no longer listed in her responsibilities. Obligations she held for reducing NEETs (not in education, employment or training) and careers education and guidance have moved across to Barran. In addition, Barran’s role includes education provision and outcomes for 16- to 19-year-olds, governance and accountability of colleges, and intervention and financial oversight for further education colleges. The DfE has confirmed that universities will come under the skills portfolio, and said that the FE brief has been split between two ministers given its breadth. Jenkyns will drive the skills agenda and Barran take responsibility for the college system, it said. Elsewhere, the previous schools and children and families briefs have been carved up and shared between new ministers Kelly Tolhurst and Jonathan Gullis. In another sign Truss plans to make good on her promise to open more grammar schools, Tolhurst’s brief includes “strategy for schools, including standards and selection”. She will also oversee exams and SEND. While Gullis will take charge of overseeing school accountability, behaviour and catch-up. Here’s what’s in each minister’s brief… Kit Malthouse, education secretary Early years Children’s social care Teacher quality, recruitment and retention The school curriculum School improvement Academies and free schools Further education Apprenticeships and skills Higher education Andrea Jenkyns, skills minister Strategy for post-16 education T-levels Qualifications reviews (levels 3 and below) Higher technical education (levels 4 and 5) Apprenticeships and traineeships Funding for education and training for 16 to 19 year olds Further education workforce and funding Institutes of Technology Local skills improvement plans and Local Skills Improvement Fund Adult education, including basic skills, the National Skills Fund and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund Higher education quality Student experience and widening participation in higher education Student finance and the Lifelong Loan Entitlement (including the Student Loans Company) International education strategy and the Turing Scheme Baroness Barran minister for the school and college system Academies and multi-academy trusts Free schools and university technical colleges Faith schools Independent schools Home education and supplementary schools Intervention in underperforming schools and school improvement School governance School capital investment (including pupil place planning) Education Investment Areas (jointly with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School Standards)) Education provision and outcomes for 16 to 19 year olds College governance and accountability Intervention and financial oversight of further education colleges Careers education, information and guidance including the Careers and Enterprise Company Reducing the number of young people who are not in education, employment or training Safeguarding in schools and post-16 settings Counter extremism in schools and post-16 settings Departmental efficiency and commercial policy Kelly Tolhurst, schools and childhood minister Strategy for schools, including standards and selection Qualifications (including links with Ofqual) Curriculum including relationships, sex, and health education and personal, social, health and economic education Admissions and school transport Early years and childcare Children’s social care Children in care, children in need, child protection, adoption and care leavers Disadvantaged and vulnerable children Families, including family hubs and early childhood support Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND), including high needs funding Alternative provision School food, including free school meals Children and young people’s mental health, online safety and preventing bullying in schools Policy to protect against serious violence Jonathan Gullis, school standards minister School accountability and inspection (including links with Ofsted) Standards and Testing Agency and primary assessment Supporting a high-quality teaching profession including professional development Supporting recruitment and retention of teachers and school leaders including initial teacher training Teaching Regulation Agency National Tutoring Programme Education Investment Areas (jointly with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for the School and College System)) School revenue funding, including the national funding formula for schools School efficiency and commercial policy Pupil premium Behaviour, attendance and exclusions School sport Digital strategy and technology in education (EdTech)