The Education Department of Liaoning Province and the Education Committee of Liaoning Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China implement the principles, policies and decision-making arrangements of the CPC Central Committee on education, and uphold and strengthen the Party's centralized and unified leadership over education in the process of performing their duties.

The main responsibilities are:

Carry out the Party and national education reform and development plan and relevant laws and regulations, formulate the province's education reform and development plan, draft relevant local regulations and draft provincial government regulations and supervise their implementation.

Responsible for deepening the comprehensive reform in the field of education and the overall planning and coordinated management of all kinds of education in the province, guiding the education and teaching reform of all kinds of schools at all levels, being responsible for the management of provincial schools, reviewing the establishment and adjustment of colleges and universities in conjunction with relevant departments, compiling and implementing all kinds of higher education enrollment plans in conjunction with relevant departments, and being responsible for the statistics, analysis and release of basic education information in the province.

Responsible for the management of teachers in the province, overall planning and guiding the construction of talent team in the education system, and organizing the implementation of teacher qualification standards at all levels.

Responsible for the management of the department's education funds, supervise the raising and use of the province's education funds, manage foreign education aid and education loans to Liaoning according to relevant regulations, and participate in the formulation of education fund raising, management and infrastructure investment policies.

Responsible for coordinating the balanced allocation of urban and rural compulsory education resources in the province, coordinating the management of basic education textbooks, guiding preschool education, ordinary high school education and special education, implementing school standardization construction, vigorously promoting education equity, improving the financial aid system for students with financial difficulties in families, formulating guiding documents for basic education teaching, organizing the examination and approval of local curriculum textbooks for basic education, promoting the reform and development of preschool education and special education, and fully implementing quality education.

Overall management of the province's higher education, overall guidance of continuing education, guidance of higher education teaching reform and evaluation, undertake the responsibility of deepening the reform of the management system of provincial universities, be responsible for the target management and performance appraisal of provincial universities, and be responsible for auditing the professional settings of provinces and cities.

Above Reference: official website, Liaoning Provincial Department of Education-Job Responsibilities