The main duties of the Provincial Department of Education are: to implement the educational principles, policies, laws and regulations of the Party and the state, to draw up the education development plan of the whole province, to guide, coordinate and supervise its implementation, and to draft local education regulations and opinions on the implementation of education.
Strengthen the overall management of basic education in the province, focus on rural education, promote the balanced development of compulsory education, promote public education resources to further tilt to rural and ethnic areas, promote education equity, guide and evaluate the work of popularizing nine-year compulsory education and eliminating illiteracy among young people.
Comprehensively implement quality education, deepen the reform of basic education, effectively reduce the academic burden of primary and secondary school students, strengthen moral education in primary and secondary schools, and guide and monitor the development level and quality of compulsory education. Vigorously develop vocational education, adhere to employment orientation, deepen vocational education reform, improve the level and quality of running vocational colleges, actively promote the innovation of vocational education system and mechanism, and further enhance the vitality of vocational education development.
Manage all kinds of higher education, degree and postgraduate education and continuing education as a whole, deepen the management system and teaching reform of colleges and universities, expand the autonomy of running schools and improve the quality of higher education.
Responsible for the overall management of education funds in this department, participate in the formulation of policies on education fund raising, education appropriation and education infrastructure investment, supervise the raising and use of education funds in the whole province, manage education funding and education loans to our province at home and abroad, and be responsible for the statistics, analysis and release of basic education information.
Coordinate and guide the education of ethnic minorities, and coordinate educational assistance to ethnic minorities and ethnic minority areas. Strengthen the overall planning, comprehensive coordination and guidance management of private education, implement policies and measures to promote the development of private education, standardize the order of running schools, and promote the healthy development of private education. Plan and guide Party building, ideological and moral construction and United front work in the education system of the whole province, guide the construction of cadres in colleges and universities, participate in the inspection of leading bodies in colleges and universities, and put forward plans to enrich and adjust leading bodies.
Plan and guide the moral education, legal publicity and education, sports health art education and national defense education of all kinds of schools in the province, and guide the stable work of colleges and universities. In charge of the work of teachers in the province, organize the implementation of the teacher qualification system, and make overall plans for the construction of the talent team in the education system.
Responsible for all kinds of higher and provincial secondary education entrance examinations and academic management, formulate enrollment plans for all kinds of colleges and provincial secondary specialized schools, and guide ordinary colleges and universities to carry out employment and entrepreneurship for college students. Plan and guide the research of natural science, philosophy and social science in the education system, guide the transformation of scientific and technological achievements in colleges and universities, coordinate and guide the implementation of major national scientific research projects in colleges and universities, and guide the construction of key disciplines in colleges and universities.
Organize and guide educational cooperation and exchanges with foreign countries, guide the education system to publicize and teach Chinese, and carry out educational cooperation and exchanges with Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. To undertake the specific work of the Education Supervision Office of the Provincial People's Government and the Provincial Language and Literature Working Committee. Responsible for the implementation of the national academic degree system and undertake the relevant work of the academic degree Committee of the provincial people's government. To undertake other tasks assigned by the provincial party committee, the provincial people's government and the Ministry of Education.