English is the medium of instruction. However, education institutions that implement the international curriculum in Rwanda are authorised to teach in another language.
Official languages are taught as subjects in accordance with the curriculum of each cycle.

Education institutions that offer special education are established based on the nature of disability, talent or unusual intellectual ability that require special education.

A learner who completes an educational cycle in a foreign education institution or a private education institution that implements an international or foreign curriculum may be admitted to an education institution that implements an official educational curriculum upon approval by the national agency in charge of national exams.

The cycles of higher education are the following:
1o undergraduate;
2o graduate;
3o postgraduate.

Primary education is compulsory and free both in public and Government-subsidised schools. In these schools, the cost of education is covered by the government.

A parent or any other person with parental authority over the child is obliged to cause admission of the child to school if the child attains the age of commencing primary education.No child may be deprived of the right to attend primary school. A parent or any other person with parental authority over the child prevents the child from any reason that may cause school dropout.