Ministry of Education (Namibia)
The Ministry of Education is a department of the Namibian government. Established at Namibian independence in 1990, the first Namibian education minister was Nahas Angula. The education minister is Sanet Steenkamp.
Portfolios
In 1990 the ministry was established as Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth and Sport. In 1991 the portfolios of youth and sport were split off, and a separate Ministry of Youth and Sport was created.In 1995 the ministry was renamed Ministry of Basic Education and Culture. The responsibility for tertiary education was given to a new ministry, the Ministry of Higher Education and Vocational Education. This step was revoked in 2005, when the ministry was again renamed to Ministry of Education, and reinstated in 2015, when there again was a separate Ministry of Higher Education, and this ministry was named Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture.
In 2025 the ministry experienced its change when the Ministries of Sport, Youth and National Service and Higher Education, Training and Innovation were both dissolved, and the education ministry took over all their portfolios except national service and training, which were discontinued. The ministry is now named Ministry of Education, Innovation, Youth, Sport, Arts and Culture.