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]
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]
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] |