Secretariat of Public Education (Mexico)
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Main headquarters of the Secretariat of Public Education | |
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Formed | 3 October 1921 |
Preceding Secretariat |
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Jurisdiction | Government of Mexico |
Headquarters | República de Argentina #28, Centro Histórico, Mexico City. C.P. 06020 |
Secretariat executive |
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Website | www.sep.gob.mx |
The Mexican Secretariat of Public Education (
Manuel Felguerez.[1]
Secretariat functions
- Creation and maintenance of state public schools in Mexico City, excluding those that are dependents of other dependencies
- Ensuring all requirements related to preschool, primary, secondary, technical, and normal education (i.e., teacher education) as established by the Constitution of Mexico are observed and completed, and to prescribe the norms to which the incorporation of particular schools in the national educational system should adjust
- Exercising supervision and vigilance that proceeds in the seminaries that impart education in the Republic, pursuant to Article 3 of the Constitution
- To systematically organize, administer and enrich the general or specialized libraries that are sustained by the Secretariat or that form part of its dependencies
- To promote the creation of institutes of scientific and technical research and the establishment of laboratories, observatories, planetariums, and also centers that are required for the development of primary, secondary, moral, technical, and superior education; to orient, in coordination with the appropriate dependencies of the federal government and with the public and private entities, the development of scientific and technological research
- To confer scholarships so that students of Mexican nationality can do research or complete foreign study programs
- To re-validate studies and titles, and to concede authorization for the exercise of the capacities that they accredit
- To formulate the catalog of national historic patrimony
- To organize, sustain, and administer historic, archaeological and artistic museums, painting galleries and art galleries, to the effect of preserving the integrity, the maintenance, and the conservation of historic and artistic treasures of the cultural patrimony of the country
- To conserve, protect, and maintain archaeological, historical, and artistic monuments that conform the cultural patrimony of the nation, attending the legal dispositions in these matters
- To orient the artistic, cultural, recreational, and sport-related activities that are realized by the federal public sector
- To maintain a national data base of the works protected by copyright and trademarks through disconcerted institutes [clarification needed]
- To regulate sports, the people involved, and the application of their rules in the nation
List of secretaries
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Sources
- ^ "Historia de la SEP". Secretaría de Educación Pública. Retrieved 2008-04-14.
See also
- Education in Mexico
- Instituto Latinoamericano de la Comunicación Educativa] (ILCE)