Main responsibilities:

First, study and formulate educational principles and policies; Draw up a draft education law.

Two, study and put forward the education reform and development strategy and national education development plan; To formulate policies for educational system reform, as well as the focus, structure and speed of educational development, and guide and coordinate their implementation.

Three, the overall management of the Department of education funds; Participate in the formulation of principles and policies for raising education funds, education appropriations and education infrastructure investment; Supervise the collection and use of national education funds; To manage foreign educational aid and loans to China in accordance with relevant regulations.

Four, study and put forward the establishment standards, basic teaching requirements and basic teaching documents of various schools in primary and secondary schools; Organizing the examination and approval of textbooks compiled by primary and secondary schools; Guide the education and teaching reform of secondary and below secondary education; Organize the supervision and evaluation of popularizing nine-year compulsory education and eliminating illiteracy among young people.

Extended data

Department of Higher Education:

To undertake the macro-management of higher education teaching; Guide the basic construction and reform of higher education teaching; Guide and improve the evaluation of higher education; To draw up the catalogue of disciplines and specialties in institutions of higher learning and teaching guidance documents; Guide all levels of higher continuing education and distance education.

Office of the Education Steering Group:

To formulate rules, regulations and standards for educational supervision and guide the work of educational supervision throughout the country; Organize the supervision, evaluation, inspection and acceptance of secondary and below secondary education and the work of eliminating illiteracy among young and middle-aged people; Issue the national education supervision report; Organize and carry out national monitoring of the development level and quality of basic education; To undertake the specific work of the national education guidance group.

Department of Ethnic Education:

To guide and coordinate the special work of minority education; Overall planning of bilingual education for ethnic minorities; To guide the national unity education of primary and secondary school students; Responsible for coordinating educational assistance to ethnic minorities and ethnic minority areas.

Teacher education department:

Planning and guiding the construction of primary and secondary school teachers nationwide; Formulate teacher education standards, training objectives and specifications of normal colleges at all levels, and the catalogue of basic majors in normal education; Guiding the teaching reform of normal education and teacher training; In conjunction with relevant parties, formulate teacher qualification standards of all levels and types to guide the implementation of the teacher qualification system.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-People's Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of Education

References:

Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC)-Notes on Complaints and Reporting