Rosária Maria Corte-Real (also Rosalia Maria Corte-Real)[1] was the Minister of Education and Culture in East Timor from 2006 to 2007. She was also responsible for youth and sports. She is a member of FRETILIN.
Education and career
editCorte-Real grew up in Ainaro, where her father was chief of the village (Portuguese: Chefe de Suco) during the Portuguese Timor period.[2] In 1965, Corte-Real completed primary school in Same (Manufahi).[3] Between 1966 and 1970 she then attended secondary and technical training school the Escola de Professores do Posto Escolar (Post School Teachers' School) in Canto Rezende, Dili.[3] Corte-Real was then principal of primary schools in Bobonaro (1970 to 1971),[3] Bazartete (1971 to 1972),[3] Hato-Udo (1973 to 1974),[3] and Bidau, a suburb of Dili (1975),[3] the year of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor.
From 1980 to 1981, Corte-Real participated in a teachers' training course in Dili,[3] followed by further training to obtain a teaching license at the IKIP Sanata Dharma in Yogyakarta, Java from 1985 to 1989.[3] In 1990, she became head of the Teachers' Section of the Department of Education and Culture, Dili.[3] From 1997 to 1999, she earned a master's degree in public administration at Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta.[2][3]
Under the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor following the 1999 East Timorese independence referendum, Corte-Real was elected an MP for Ainaro District for the FRETILIN party in the transitional constituent assembly, on 30 August 2001.[2][3] She was a member of the Thematic Committee I and the Systematisation and Harmonisation Committee, which contributed to the development of East Timor's Bill of Rights.[4] When East Timor became independent in 2002, the assembly became the National Parliament of East Timor, and Corte-Real was elected secretary of the parliament.[2]
In the government sworn in in July 2005, Corte-Real was appointed Vice Minister of Primary and Secondary Education,[5][6] in order to provide support to the Minister of Education at a time of conflict between church and state.[7] In the next government formed in 2006, Corte-Real became the Minister of Education and Culture,[2][8] replacing Armindo Maia. She retained that office until the election in June 2007.[9] Her successor as minister was João Câncio Freitas.
References
edit- ^ "New East Timor government sworn in". The Sydney Morning Herald. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. 15 July 2006. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d e Ospina, Sofi; de Lima, Isabel (2006). Participation of Women in Politics and Decision Making in Timor-Leste: A Recent History (PDF). UNIFEM - United Nations Development Fund for Women. p. 37. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "SEAMEO Council: Timor-Leste Rosaria Maria Corte-Real". South East Asian Ministers of Education Organization. 16 August 2007. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Devereux, Annemarie (2015). Timor-Leste's Bill of Rights: A Preliminary History. Canberra, Australia: ANU Press. pp. 304–305. ISBN 9781925022391. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ "I Constitutional Government. I Constitutional Government Restructured July 26th, 2005". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Hasegawa, Sukehiro (2018). Routledge Revivals: Peacebuilding and National Ownership in Timor-Leste. Routledge. ISBN 9781351060134. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ Berlie, J.A. (2007). "Schooling in Timor Leste". In Postiglione, Gerard A.; Tan, Jason (eds.). Going to School in East Asia. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 411. ISBN 9780313336331. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ "II Constitutional Government. Sworn into office on July 10th, 2006". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
- ^ "III Constitutional Government. Sworn into office on May 18th, 2007". Government of Timor-Leste. Retrieved 13 August 2019.