Duties and responsibilities:

i. Drafting national education development plans;

ii. Implementing higher education management system reforms;

iii. Drafting and enforcing standards for higher education enrollment plans and the establishment of higher educational institutions in cooperation with relevant departments;

iv. Participating in preparation of standards for schools at all levels;

v. Reviewing the establishment, revocation, renaming, change of status of higher education institutions, inter alia, with relevant departments;

vi. Performing statistical and analytical work on basic information on education;

vii. Managing MOE-affiliated institution and higher education institution infrastructure;

viii. Overseeing planning, coordination and management of private-run higher education institutions; and

ix. Supervising and executing privatization reforms in higher education institution logistics departments.