Ministry of National EducationGovernment

The Ministry of National Education is a cabinet-level government department of France responsible for overseeing the country's public education system and supervising private educational institutions. It defines national curricula, recruits and manages teaching staff, and organizes national examinations like the baccalauréat. Originally created as the Ministry of Public Instruction in 1828, its mandate was decisively shaped by the late 19th-century Jules Ferry laws that established free, mandatory, and secular public schooling.