Department of Culture, Heritage and Education

The Lovian Department of Culture, Heritage and Education, in short DoCHE is the federal department with the goal of protecting Lovian culture, heritage and education. It has been founded on Inauguration Day 2008 by the Secretary of Department of Culture, Heritage and Education, Lars Washington.

Mission
The Government as a friend.

The Lovian Department of Culture, Heritage and Education, is responsable for Culture, Heritage and supervision of Education.

The aim of the Department of Culture, Heritage and Education is to provide Lovian society with the tools and services enabling Lovian citizens and Lovian organisations to enjoy their cultural heritage.

Education has as one of its fundamental aspects the imparting of culture from generation to generation. Education means 'to draw out', facilitating realisation of self-potential and latent talents of an individual. It is an application of pedagogy, a body of theoretical and applied research relating to teaching and learning and draws on many disciplines such as psychology, philosophy, computer science, linguistics, neuroscience, sociology —often more profound than they realize—though family teaching may function very informally.

Culture
Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate) refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance. Culture is manifested in music, literature, painting and sculpture, theater and film and other things.

Culture can be defined as all the behaviors, ways of life, arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. Culture has been called the way of life for an entire society. As such, it includes codes of manners, dress, language, religion, rituals, norms of behavior such as law and morality, and systems of belief as well as the arts and gastronomy.

Heritage

 * Cultural heritage is the legacy of physical artifacts and intangible attributes of a group or society that are inherited from past generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for the benefit of future generations.
 * Physical heritage (tangible cultural heritage) includes buildings and historic places, monuments, artifacts, etc., that are considered worthy of preservation for the future. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specific culture.
 * Natural heritage is an important part of a culture, encompassing the countryside and natural environment, including flora and fauna. These kind of heritage sites serve as an important component in Lovia's tourist industry, attracting many visitors from abroad as well as locally.

Education
Unlike the systems of most other countries, education in Lovia is highly decentralized, and the Department of Culture, Heritage and Education is not heavily involved in determining curricula or educational standards. This has been left to state and local school districts. The quality of educational institutions and their degrees is maintained through an informal private process known as accredition, over which the Department of Department of Culture, Heritage and Education has no direct public jurisdictional control. Rather, the primary function of the Department of Culture, Heritage and Education, is to formulate  funding programs involving education and to enforce educational laws regarding privacy and civil rights.

As with other departments, the Department of Culture, Heritage and Education, operates with the assistance of several advisory committees. The interagency committee on Education is known in higher education for originating the DoCHE code. The DoCHE Code is a six-digit identification code that is used to identify all committees working with the Department of Culture, Heritage and Education.