1, responsible for the filing, annual inspection, supervision and management of off-campus teaching points of continuing education in colleges and universities in the city.

2. Participate in the management of private higher education.

3, in conjunction with the relevant departments of the city to guide the city's college party organization construction, party member development and education management, to guide the ideological and political education and ideological management of college teachers and students, and to guide the United front and mass organizations in colleges and universities. Under normal circumstances, the director of the Higher Education Department of the Education Department is at the county level.