The Ministry of Education (MINeDUC, Kinyarwanda: Minisiteri y'Uburezi,[1] French: Ministère de l'Éducation[2]) of Rwanda, previously the Ministère de l'Éducation, de la Science, de la Technologie et de la Recherche scientifique,[3] is headquartered in Kigali.[4] As of December 2017, the minister is Dr. Eugène Mutimura. He was preceded by Dr. Papias Malimba Musafiri, who served in that position since June 2015 - December 2017.[5][6]

Number of schools, students, and staff

In 2017, the estimated population of Rwanda was 11.8 million people.[7] MINeDUC oversees over 13,000 education centers, 93,000 staff, and over 3.6 million students.[7] The primary and secondary schools are organized into 30 administrative districts.[8][9]

MINeDUC Human Resources by School Type (2017)
Levels Schools Students Staff
Pre-nursery 90 5,234 243
Nursery 3,186 220,435 6,812
Primary 2,877 2,540,374 43,906
General Secondary 1,375 531,377 24,561
Technical & Vocational

Education & Training (TVET)

402 107,501 6,929
General Tertiary 37 80,773 5,196
Adult Literacy 5,160 152,015 6,287
TOTAL: 13,127 3,637,709 93,934
Source: MINeDUC[7]

References

  1. ^ "banner_rw.jpg Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine." Ministry of Education of Rwanda. Retrieved on October 8, 2014.
  2. ^ "mineduc_slideshow-7.jpg Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine." Ministry of Education of Rwanda. Retrieved on October 8, 2014.
  3. ^ "Home" (French). Ministry of Education of Rwanda. December 3, 2013. Retrieved on October 8, 2014.
  4. ^ "Contact us." Ministry of Education. Retrieved on October 8, 2014.
  5. ^ Times Reporter (25 June 2015). "Musafiri appointed as new Education minister". New Times (Rwanda). Kigali. Retrieved 17 September 2017.
  6. ^ "Dr. Papias Musafiri Malimba and Philbert Nsengimana have been removed from Cabinet". APV. 2017-12-07. Archived from the original on 2018-06-27. Retrieved 2018-06-27.
  7. ^ a b c "Rwanda Education Statistics 2017". Republic of Rwanda Ministry of Education. April 2018. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  8. ^ "Primary School Districts in Rwanda". Republic of Rwanda Ministry of Education. 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
  9. ^ "Secondary School Districts in Rwanda". Republic of Rwanda Ministry of Education. 2017. Retrieved June 26, 2018.

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