Ministry of Education (Myanmar)

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Ministry of Education
ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန
Myanmar Ministry of Education seal.svg
Agency overview
Formed 1950
Jurisdiction  Myanmar
Headquarters Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Ministers responsible
  • Khin San Yee, Minister
  • Zaw Min Aung, Deputy Minister
  • Thant Shin, Deputy Minister
Child agencies
  • Department of Higher Education
  • Department of Basic Education
  • Department of Human Resources and Educational Planning
  • Department of Teachers Education and Training
  • Department of Myanmar Educational Research
  • Department of Myanmar Language and Linguistics
  • Department of Myanmar Examinations
Website www.myanmar-education.edu.mm
www.moemyanmar.net

The Ministry of Education (Burmese: ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန, Burmese pronunciation: [pjìɲàjé wʊ̀ɴdʑí tʰàna]; abbreviated MOE) is the Myanmar government agency responsible for education in Myanmar.

Departmental bodies

Department of Basic Education No. 3,the Rangoon College (Kyimyindine campus) until 1996
Assembly building of DBE 3
  • The Minister's Office
  • Department of Higher Education အဆင့်မြင့်ပညာဦးစီးဌာန
  • Department of Teacher Training ဆရာအတတ်ပညာနှင့်လေ့ကျင့်ရေးဦးစီးဌာန
  • Department of Human Resources and Educational Planning လူ့စွမ်းအားအရင်းအမြစ်နှင့် ပညာရေးစီမံကိန်းဦးစီးဌာန
  • Department of Basic Education အခြေခံပညာဦးစီးဌာန
  • Myanmar Language Commission မြန်မာစာအဖွဲ့
  • Department of Myanmar Examinations မြန်မာနိုင်ငံစာစစ်ဦးစီးဌာန
  • Department of Myanmar Education Research Bureau (MERB) ပညာရေးသုသေတနအဖွဲ့ဦးစီးဌာန

There are seven departments under the Ministry of Education:

  1. Administration staff
  2. Department of Higher Education (အဆင့်မြင့်ပညာဦးစီးဌာန)
  3. Department of Basic Education (အခြေခံပညာဦးစီးဌာန)
  4. Department of Myanmar Language Commission (မြန်မာစာအဖွဲ့)
  5. Department of Myanmar Board of Examinations (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံစာစစ်)
  6. Myanmar Educational Research Bureau (MERB) (ပညာရေးသုသေတန)

The Office Staff of the Ministry of Education is responsible to the Deputy Ministers and the Minister. They supervise the implementation of educational programmes, set the educational policies, are responsible for fiscal planning within the ministry and department personnel and administration of the ministry.

List of ministers

Khin San Yee, Burmese Education Minister
  • Ba Maw (1934–1937)
  • U Razak (1947) [1]
  • Htoon Aung Kyaw
  • U Win
  • Hla Min
  • Maung Gyi
  • U Kar (1958-1960) [2]
  • Dr. Nyi Nyi
  • Col. Hla Han
  • Col. Dr. Pe Thein
  • Pan Aung
  • Than Aung (1997-2004)
  • Dr Chan Nyein (2004-2011)
  • Dr Mya Aye (2011-2013)
  • Dr Khin San Yee (2014–present)

References

  1. p. 164. Ethnic Myanmar Muslim Authors and Famous persons Part 2 by Professor Dr. Aung Zaw. Publisher Islamic Council of Myanmar Headquarters Yangon. 2010
  2. p. 129 Ethnic Myanmar Muslim Authors and Famous persons Part 2 by Professor Dr. Aung Zaw. Publisher Islamic Council of Myanmar Head quarters Yangon. 2010

External links

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