Ministry of Education (Peru)

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At the beginning of an independent Peru, the Education branch was known as that of "Public Instruction", and was part of a multi-pronged ministry that included the sectors of Justice, Worship (or Ecclesiastical Affairs), and Charity. On one occasion, it was combined with the Office of Foreign Affairs.

Its first predecessor was the Ministry of Public Instruction, Charity, and Ecclesiastical Affairs (Spanish: Ministerio de Instrucción Pública, Beneficencia y Negocios Eclesiásticos), created on February 4, 1837, during the administration of Andrés de Santa Cruz, president of the Peru–Bolivian Confederation. This office was the fourth ministry, along with the three traditional ministries founded in 1822: Government and Foreign Affairs, War and Navy, and Economy.^[3]

The following day, February 5, 1837, the priest Dr. Manuel Villarán Loli [es] was appointed the first Minister of Public Instruction. After the fall of the Confederation and the beginning of the Restoration period in 1839, this ministry was restored, albeit briefly. After the anarchy that broke out in 1842, a General Ministry was established; once constitutionality was restored in 1845, the various branches of government were reorganised.

In 1852, the Ministry of Justice, Ecclesiastical Affairs, Education, and Charity (Spanish: Ministerio de Justicia, Negocios Eclesiásticos, Instrucción y Beneficencia) was created, whose first head was the cleric Bartolomé Herrera, a conservative ideologue. From 1855 to 1856, the branch of Public Education was merged with the Foreign Office, thus functioning as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Public Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores e Instrucción Pública).

By law of November 17, 1856, issued under the provisional government of Ramón Castilla, the Ministry of Justice, Education, and Charity (Spanish: Ministerio de Justicia, Instrucción y Beneficencia) was created. An amendment to this law in 1862 included this ministry in the branch of worship. The Ministry of Justice, Worship, Charity, and Public Instruction (Spanish: Ministerio de Justicia, Culto, Beneficencia e Instrucción Pública) was thus established. In 1896, it ceased to include the branch of charity and was renamed the Ministry of Justice, Worship, and Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Justicia, Culto e Instrucción).

On September 12, 1935, Law No. 8124, passed during the administration of General Óscar R. Benavides, created the Ministry of Public Education (Spanish: Ministerio de Educación Pública), which was thus definitively separated from the Ministry of Justice and Worship. The first to hold the title of Minister of Public Education was General Ernesto Montagne Markholz (1935-1939). In 1965, it was renamed to its current anem, and in 2007 its acronym changed from MED to MINEDU.

Headquarters

From 1956 until the mid-1990s, its main headquarters were in the Javier Alzamora Valdez Building, a skyscraper located in the historic centre of Lima.

In the mid-90s, it moved to a new headquarters where the Institute for Research and Development of Education (INIDE) operated, located in the San Borja District until 2011, when a new building was inaugurated to the north of the San Borja District, next to the Museum of the Nation. Previously, at the end of the 2000s, some offices moved to the Administrative Complex of the Public Fisheries Sector to later move to the new headquarters in the form of stacked books. Finally, all the administrative areas of the ministry were transferred to the new headquarters where the ministry works to this day.

The ministry's current organisation dates back to Supreme Decree 001-2015-MINEDU, approved in 2015.^[4]

• Ministerial Office
  • Vice Ministry of Pedagogical Management
    • General Directorate of Regular Basic Education
    • General Directorate of Alternative, Intercultural, Bilingual, and Rural Education Services
    • General Directorate of Special Educational Services
    • Directorate of Technological Innovation in Education
    • Directorate of Educational Resources Management
    • General Directorate of Teacher Development
    • General Directorate of Higher University Education
    • General Directorate of Technical-Productive and Higher Technological and Artistic Education
    • House of Peruvian Literature
  • Vice Ministry of Institutional Management
    • General Directorate of Decentralized Management
    • General Directorate of School Management Quality
    • General Directorate of Educational Infrastructure
    • General Directorate of Scholarships and Educational Loans
    • National Scholarship and Educational Loan Programme (PRONABEC)
    • National Educational Infrastructure Programme (PRONIED)
  • General Secretariat
  • Secretariat of Strategic Planning
• Institutional Oversight Body
• Public Prosecutor's Office
• National Education Council
• Metropolitan Lima Regional Directorate (DRELM)

Entities administered by the ministry include:

• Peruvian Institute of Sport (IPD)
• National System for Evaluation, Accreditation and Certification of Educational Quality (SINEACE)
• National Youth Secretariat (SENAJU)

Huampani Vacation Center (CV HUAMPANI) High-Performance Schools (COAR) Special Public Investment Project for Bicentennial Schools (PEIP for Bicentennial Schools) Educational Resources Management Directorate (DIGERE) National Fund for the Development of Peruvian Education (FONDEP) National Literacy Programme (PNA) Programme for the Improvement of the Quality and Relevance of Higher University and Technological Education Services (PMESUT) Management Agency for Public Higher Technological Education Institutes and Schools (Educatec)

Related entities include:

• National Superintendency of Higher University Education (SUNEDU)
• National Pedagogical Institute of Monterrico (IPNM)
• National Autonomous School of Fine Arts of Peru (ENSABAP)
• National School of Ballet (ENSB)
• Public Universities of Peru

It was formerly linked to the National Council of Science, Technology and Technological Innovation (CONCYTEC) and the Geophysical Institute of Peru [es] (IGP).

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