Ministry of Education (Myanmar)

Ministry of Education
ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန
	Flag of MOE
	Logo of MOE
Government overview
Formed	1950
Jurisdiction	Myanmar
Headquarters	Naypyidaw, Myanmar; 19°48′02″N 96°07′11″E / 19.800635°N 96.119792°ECoordinates: 19°48′02″N 96°07′11″E / 19.800635°N 96.119792°E
Minister responsible	Nyunt Pe, Union 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 Nationalities’ Languages; Department of Myanmar Examinations;
Website	www.moe.gov.mm

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

Brief History[]

The Ministry of Education aims to nurture future oriented advanced science and technology professionals, support national economic development and promote research.^[1] In order to rectify and strengthen the purposes, Ministry of Education expanded into new Ministry of Science and Technology in 1996. This ministry focused on research and development, intellectual property, standardization, quality assuring, basic infrastructure development, nuclear safety and human resource development. In 2016, the five departments from Ministry of Science and Technology merged with Ministry of Education with the aim of forming momentum in national development. Currently, Ministry of Education is taking control in national development with four categories.

Research and development category
Human resource development category
Foreign collaboration and co-operation category
Rural development category

On 17 June 2021, the State Administration Council reformed the Ministry of Education as the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science and Technology.^[2]

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) ^[3]
Htoon Aung Kyaw
U Win
Hla Min
Maung Gyi
U Kar (1958-1960) ^[4]
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 - 1 February 2021)
Dr Nyunt Pe (16 February 2021 - Incumbent)

References[]

^ "Background History". Ministry of Education. 1 March 2016. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
^ "Order No 138/2021, State Administration Council, Republic of the Union of Myanmar" (PDF). The Global New Light of Myanmar. MNA. 18 June 2021. p. 3. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
^ 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