(1) Administrative legal responsibility for violating the education law. A considerable part of China's current education law takes the government and its education administrative department as one side, adjusting the administrative relationship in educational activities has the attribute of administrative law, and acts violating the education law have administrative illegality, so administrative legal responsibility is the most important legal responsibility for violating the education law. According to the relevant education laws and regulations, there are two main ways to bear the administrative legal responsibility for violating the education law: administrative punishment and administrative punishment.
(2) Civil legal liability for violating the education law. The civil legal liability for violating the education law refers to the civil legal liability that the subjects of educational legal relations should bear according to law because they violate the provisions of the education law and undermine the normal property relations or personal relations between equal subjects. This is a kind of responsibility with property responsibility as the main content.
(3) Criminal legal responsibility for violating the education law. The criminal legal responsibility for violating the education law refers to the legal consequences that the subject of educational legal relationship must bear when it violates both the education law and the criminal law. The way to bear this responsibility is criminal sanctions, that is, punishment.
There is not only one way to investigate legal responsibility for an act that violates educational laws and regulations. For example, administrative responsibility, criminal legal responsibility or civil legal responsibility can be investigated at the same time, and the three forms can also be combined.