The Indian Education Service or Indian Educational Service[1] (IES) formed part of the British Raj between 1896 and 1924, when overseas recruitment ceased.
It was an administrative organisation running educational establishments in British India, largely staffed by Europeans, that was crucial to Macaulay's model of colonial education .
It replaced a previous system of provincial administrations by a uniform all-India service.
[3] As a delayed consequence of the Islington Commission of 1912 on public services in India, the existing distinction between the IES and Provincial Education Service officials began to be dismantled in the early 1920s.
Most recently, the Bharatiya Janata Party central government proposed to revive the IES, as per comments in 2016 on its upcoming draft of National Education Policy 2020.