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{{Short description|Government ministry of France}}
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{{Infobox official post
| post = Minister of National Education and Youth
| native_name = {{Lang|fr|Ministre de l'Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse}}
| image = 
| imagesize = 
| incumbent = [[Édouard Geffray]]
| incumbentsince = 12 October 2025
| member_of = [[Government of France|Cabinet]]
| department = Ministry of National Education
| reports_to = [[President of France|President of the Republic]]<br/>[[Prime Minister of France|Prime Minister]]
| seat = Hôtel de Rochechouart, 110 rue de Grenelle, [[Paris 7e]].
| nominator = [[Prime Minister of France|Prime Minister]]
| appointer = [[President of France|President of the Republic]]
| termlength = No fixed term
| constituting_instrument = 
| formation = 1 February 1828
| website = {{Official URL}}
| insignia = Ministère de l’Éducation nationale et de la Jeunesse.svg
| insigniacaption = 
}}
{{Politics of France}}

The '''Ministry of National Education and Youth''', or simply '''Ministry of National Education''', as the title has changed several times in the course of the [[French Fifth Republic|Fifth Republic]], is the cabinet member in the [[Government of France]] who oversees the country's public educational system and supervises agreements and authorisations for private teaching organisations.

The ministry's headquarters is located in the 18th century Hôtel de Rochechouart on the Rue de Grenelle in the [[7th arrondissement of Paris]].<ref>"[http://www.education.gouv.fr/cid2606/mentions-legales.html à propos du site – mentions légales – crédits]". Ministry of National Education. Retrieved on 6 May 2011. "Ministère de l’éducation nationale, de la jeunesse et de la vie associative Secrétariat général – Délégation à la communication 110 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris"</ref> As education is France's largest employment domain, the ministry directs the work of more than half of the [[French Civil Service|state civil servants]]. The position is thereore traditionally a strategic one.

After the [[2024 French legislative election]], [[Anne Genetet]] was appointed Minister of National Education on 21 September 2024. She was succeeded by [[Élisabeth Borne]] from December 2024 to Octobre 2025 in the [[Bayrou government]] and the [[first Lecornu government]]. On October 12 2025, [[Édouard Geffray]], former Director-General of the ministry, took the office  in the [[second Lecornu government]],

==History==
A governmental position overseeing public education was first created in [[France]] in 1802. Following the various regime changes in France in the first decades of the 19th century, the position changed official status and name a number of times before the position of '''Minister of Public Instruction''' was created in 1828. For much of its history, the position was combined with that of [[Minister of Public Worship]], who dealt with issues related to the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church]], except in instances where the Minister of Public Instruction was a [[Protestantism|Protestant]].  The position has also occasionally been combined with [[Minister of Sports (France)|Minister of Sports]] and [[Minister of Sports (France)|Minister of Youth Affairs]].  In 1932, the office's title was changed to '''Minister of National Education''', although it was briefly changed back in 1940–1941, and was renamed '''Minister of Education''' during the presidency of [[Valéry Giscard d'Estaing]] (1974–1981). In 1975, it created the ''[[Comité d'études sur les formations d'ingénieurs]]'' which studies the training and job placement of engineers in France.

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Hôtel de Rochechouart jardin 1.JPG|Gardens of the Hôtel de Rochechouart
Hotel Rochechouart Salon jules ferry.jpg|Office of the Education Minister at the Hôtel de Rochechouart
Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, 52 rue de Bellechasse, Paris 7e.jpg|View from the street
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==See also==
* [[List of education ministers of France]]
* [[Education in France]]
* [[Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (France)]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.education.gouv.fr/ France Ministry of National Education] – Official website {{in lang|fr}}

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