Jeanne Mujawamariya

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Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya (born 13 March 1970 in Kigali) is a Rwandan politician. Since 2006 she has been the Minister of Education (formally, the Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Research) in the government of Rwanda.

Mujawamariya earned a B.Sc. from Peoples' Friendship University of Russia and in 1997 received an M.Sc. in chemistry from Moscow State University. She went on to earn a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics at IIT Roorkee in 2001. [1] [2] She is married with two children. [2]

From 2003 to 2006, she served as Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education in the Rwandan government. In 2006, she became the minister of education.

In January 2008, Mujawamariya appeared before a Rwandan parliamentary commission investigating the continued presence of "genocide ideology" in Rwandan schools. Several MPs on the commission criticized Mujawamariya and Joseph Murekeraho, Minister of State for Primary and Secondary Education, for taking insufficient punitive action against teachers and curriculum developers who were disseminating anti-Tutsi sentiments in schools. [3]

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  1. ^ Senior Officers of the Institute. Retrieved on 2008-02-05.
  2. ^ a b Mujawamariya Jeanne d'Arc, Secrétaire d’Etat Chargée de l’Enseignement Primaire et Secondaire (French). Retrieved on 2008-02-06.
  3. ^ "Rwanda 'still teaching genocide'", BBC News, 17 January 2008. Retrieved on 2008-02-05. 

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