Ministry of Education (Myanmar)

Ministry of Education
Agency overview
ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန

Formed	1950
Jurisdiction	Myanmar
Headquarters	Naypyidaw, Myanmar
Minister responsible	Myo Thein Gyi, 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:

Administration staff
Department of Higher Education (အဆင့်မြင့်ပညာဦးစီးဌာန)
Department of Basic Education (အခြေခံပညာဦးစီးဌာန)
Department of Myanmar Language Commission (မြန်မာစာအဖွဲ့)
Department of Myanmar Board of Examinations (မြန်မာနိုင်ငံစာစစ်)
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

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 (minister) (2011-2013)
Dr Khin San Yee (2014–30 March 2016)
Aung San Suu Kyi (30 March 2016-6 April 2016)
Dr Myo Thein Gyi (6 April 2016- )

References

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

Myanmar Ministry of Education official website (Blocked from access outside Myanmar following a defacement by Pro-Democracy supporters)
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Education,Myanmar

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