Ministry of Education and Culture
The Ministry of Education and Culture is a Cabinet position in the governments of several nations. In some nations the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture are separate departments; in others, the Ministry of Education and Culture also includes Arts, Science, Sports, etc.
The Ministry is politically responsible for education and promoting and protecting cultural expression.
Duties
Is duty of Ministry of Education and Culture digitize, preserve and make them available and accessible public domain works for every citizen. Every country has millions of public domain works (books, pictures, music and films) that belongs to the public domain and since there is not restrictions or copyright on them and all these works can be accessed, copied and enjoyed by its citizen in order to accomplish human right of access to science and culture make more egalitarian access to culture in every country no matter the social status of the cirizens.[1][2]
Ministries of Education and Culture by country
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Cyprus)
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Finland)
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Indonesia)
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Israel) A position that existed in 1949–1977, 1984–1990, 1992–1993, and is now the Ministry of Education.
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Mozambique)
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Spain) A position that existed from 1996-2000 and is now the Ministry of Education.
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Somalia)
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Tanzania)
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Uruguay)
- Ministry of Education and Culture (Philippines) A position that existed from 1978-2001 and is now the Department of Education.
Similarly named ministries in other countries
- Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, Austria
- Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs, Culture and Sports (Greece)
- Ministry of Education, Science and Culture (Iceland)
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan
- Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (Mongolia)
- Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (Netherlands)
- Ministry of Education, Research and Culture (Sweden)
- Ministry of Education, Sport and Culture (Zimbabwe)
See also
- Right to science and culture
- Human rights
- Right to education
- Right to an adequate standard of living
- Welfare rights
- Right to education
- Economic, social and cultural rights
- Culture minister
- Cultural genocide
- Education minister
- Ministry of Culture and Tourism (disambiguation)