Ministry of National Education (France)
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The Ministry of National Education and Youth, or simply Ministry of National Education, as the title has changed several times in the course of the Fifth Republic, is the cabinet member in the Government of France who oversees the country's public educational system and supervises agreements and authorisations for private teaching organisations.
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Minister of National Education and Youth | |
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Ministre de l'Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse | |
Ministry of National Education | |
Member of | Cabinet |
Reports to | President of the Republic Prime Minister |
Seat | Hôtel de Rochechouart, 110 rue de Grenelle, Paris 7e. |
Nominator | Prime Minister |
Appointer | President of the Republic |
Term length | No fixed term |
Formation | 1 February 1828 |
Website | www |
The ministry's headquarters is located in the 18th century Hôtel de Rochechouart on the Rue de Grenelle in the 7th arrondissement of Paris.[1] As education is France's largest employment domain, the ministry directs the work of more than half of the state civil servants. The position is therefore traditionally a strategic one.
On 11 January 2024, with the installation of the Attal government, the ministry changed its name to Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, de la Jeunesse, des Sports et des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques (Ministry of National Education, Youth, Sports and the Olympic and Paralympic Games). During the second cabinet reshuffle of February 2024, and owing to a controversy involving Amélie Oudéa-Castéra, the ministry was divided into two: Oudéa-Castéra kept the Ministry of Sports and Olympic and Paralympic Games title, while the Ministry of Education was assigned to Nicole Belloubet.