Editing Manitoba (section)

== Education ==
{{See also|Higher education in Manitoba|Manitoba Public Schools Act}}
Public schools follow a provincially mandated curriculum in either French or English. There are sixty-five funded independent schools in Manitoba, including three boarding schools.<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/schools/ind/funded_ind.html|title=Funded Independent Schools|publisher=Government of Manitoba|accessdate=12 November 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206110211/http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/schools/ind/funded_ind.html|archivedate=6 December 2009}}</ref> These schools must follow the Manitoban curriculum and meet other provincial requirements. There are forty-four non-funded independent schools, which are not required to meet those standards.<ref name="non-fund">{{vcite web|url=http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/schools/ind/non_fund_ind.html|title=Non-Funded Independent Schools|publisher=Government of Manitoba|accessdate=12 November 2009|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206115302/http://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/schools/ind/non_fund_ind.html|archivedate=6 December 2009}}</ref> Public schools in Manitoba fall under the regulation of one of thirty-seven [[List of school districts in Manitoba|school divisions]] within [[Minister of Education, Citizenship and Youth (Manitoba)|the provincial education system]] (except for the [[Manitoba Band Operated Schools]], which are administered by the federal government).<ref>{{vcite book|author=Hajnal, Vivian J|title=Saving America's School Infrastructure|editor=Crampton, Faith E; Thompson, David C|publisher=Information Age Publishing|year=2003|pages=57–58|chapter=Canadian Approaches to the Financing of School Infrastructure|isbn=978-1-931576-17-8}}</ref> In 2021, the provincial government announced a plan to merge all English-language school divisions into 15 regional catchment areas, overseen by a provincial education authority.<ref>{{vcite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-education-reform-report-faq-1.5950279|publisher=CBC News|date=15 March 2021|title=Here's what parents need to know about how education is changing in Manitoba|archivedate=22 March 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210322144659/https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-education-reform-report-faq-1.5950279}}</ref>

There are five universities in Manitoba, regulated by the [[Minister of Advanced Education and Literacy (Manitoba)|Ministry of Advanced Education and Literacy]].<ref name=aucc>{{vcite web|accessdate=8 October 2008 |url=http://www.aucc.ca/can_uni/our_universities/index_e.html |title=Canadian Universities |publisher=Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada |url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081031233354/http://www.aucc.ca/can_uni/our_universities/index_e.html |archivedate=31 October 2008 }}</ref> Four of these universities are in Winnipeg: the [[University of Manitoba]], the largest and most comprehensive; the [[University of Winnipeg]], a [[liberal arts college|liberal arts school]] primarily focused on [[undergrad]] studies downtown; [[Université de Saint-Boniface]], the province's only French-language university; and the [[Canadian Mennonite University]], a religious-based institution. The Université de Saint-Boniface, established in 1818 and now affiliated with the University of Manitoba, is the oldest university in Western Canada. [[Brandon University]], formed in 1899 and in Brandon, is the province's only university not in Winnipeg.<ref>{{vcite web|url=http://www.aucc.ca/_pdf/english/aboutaucc/joinaucc_e.pdf|title=Founding Year and Joining Year of AUCC Member Institutions|date=2 November 2009|publisher=AUCC|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807100142/http://www.aucc.ca/_pdf/english/aboutaucc/joinaucc_e.pdf|archivedate=7 August 2011}}</ref>

Manitoba has fifty-four public library systems. Of these, [[Winnipeg Public Library]] has the largest collections, at 1.1 million items as of 2020.<ref>{{vcite web|url=https://www.countingopinions.com/pireports/report.php?70351c2a136f68fbac85d58cba5ea972&live|title=Collection|publisher=Manitoba Sport, Culture, and Heritage|accessdate=2 April 2021|archivedate=14 July 2021|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20210714172759/https://www.countingopinions.com/pireports/report.php?70351c2a136f68fbac85d58cba5ea972=&live=}}</ref>