Ministry of Education (Myanmar)

Ministry of Education
ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာန
	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°E
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 Nationalities’ Languages; Department of Myanmar Examinations;
Website	www.moe.gov.mm

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

Departmental bodies

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)
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