Ministry of Education (Rwanda)

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]

Number of schools, students, and staff

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]

MINeDUC Human Resources by School Type (2017)

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]