- Jeanne Mujawamariya
Jeanne d'Arc Mujawamariya (born 13 March 1970 in
Kigali ) is aRwanda n politician. Since 2006 she has been theMinister of Education (formally, the Minister of Education, Science, Technology and Research) in the government ofRwanda .Mujawamariya earned a B.Sc. from
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia and in 1997 received an M.Sc. in chemistry fromMoscow State University . She went on to earn aPh.D. in chemistry and physics at IIT Roorkee in 2001. [cite web|url=http://www.kist.ac.rw/senior_staff.htm|title=Senior Officers of the Institute|accessdate=2008-02-05] cite web|url=http://www.ibe.unesco.org/International/ICE47/English/MesMOE/messages/rwanda.html|title=Mujawamariya Jeanne d'Arc, Secrétaire d’Etat Chargée de l’Enseignement Primaire et Secondaire|accessdate=2008-02-06|language=French] She is married with two children.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. [cite news
url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7194827.stm
title=Rwanda 'still teaching genocide'
publisher=BBC News
date=17 January 2008
accessdate=2008-02-05]References
External links
* [http://www.mineduc.gov.rw/article.php3?id_article=14 Welcome from the Minister] , official website of the Rwandan Ministry of Education
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