APPENDIX B
PUBLIC EDUCATION STRUCTURES IN THE MARITIME PROVINCES

New Brunswick

Department of Education

The provincial government appoints the Minister of Education for New Brunswick. The Minister is fully responsible for managing and directing all aspects of the Department of Education. The Department develops and establishes curriculum, sets evaluation standards, forms a link to school principals and oversees education administration and financing for the eighteen provincial Francophone and Anglophone districts. The Minister is directly aided by two appointed Deputy Ministers and their secretaries (one Francophone and one Anglophone) and an Executive Assistant.

There are five main branches within the New Brunswick Department of Education. They include Anglophone Educational Services, Francophone Educational Services (Services éducatifs francophones), New Brunswick Community College (NBCC), Post-Secondary Education, and Administration and Finance. Divisions for Communications, and Policy and Planning are independent. They are responsible to the ministerial appointments and provide services to the five other branches.