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Mrs. Maria van
der Hoeven, Minister for Education, Culture and Science. Mrs. van der Hoeven was born in Meerssen in 1949. After completing her secondary education she was trained as a primary teacher in Maastricht. She subsequently obtained a secondary teaching certificate in English, after which she attended courses in higher management for non–profit organisations at the Institute of Social Sciences and Business Management at the Open University in Heerlen. From 1969 she taught at schools of home economics and, from 1971, at a junior secondary commercial school, where she subsequently became a school counsellor. Until 1987 she was head of the Adult Commercial Vocational Training Centre in Maastricht, after which she served as the head of the Limburg Technology Centre until 1991. From 1991 to 2002 Mrs. Van der Hoeven was a member of the House of Repesentatives of the States General for the Christian Democratic Alliance (CDA). She has held a variety of social and cultural posts, including membership of the governing board of the Maastricht College of Higher Professional Education and of the Southern Dutch Opera Association, and chairmanship of the Saint Nicholas Catholic Association of Bargees. |
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