The Center functions as a regulator of educational policies and their implementation. Similarly, it is also responsible for proper evaluation and reporting of the programs and their efficiency. MoEST prepares educational plans for basic, primary and secondary levels based on the center's reports.
Vision:
To develop and expand quality education to help establish and develop an educated, cultured, prosperous, and dynamic society by facilitating quality education.
Mission:
To make education a vehicle of development to provide basic education for all and to further school-level educational opportunities beyond that.
Strategy:
- To increase the access of all to education and to make the local level responsible and accountable for the development and expansion of quality education by decentralizing the right to run schools and to help the local and community level to strengthen their role.
- To promote and facilitate the harmonious cooperation of public, non-governmental, and private sectors to accelerate the development of school education by preparing competitive, timely, and capable manpower.
- To assist in the development of the institutional capacity of the department and its subordinate offices to make the service flow faster, and more effective by making the educational work and process from the center to the school level transparent.
- To make school education holistic by making all stakeholders responsible and accountable and to prepare program plans to increase the access of educationally backward classes, women, and minority groups.
Workplan:
- To provide necessary technical assistance to educational institutions and bodies.
- To increase the access of all to education.
- To develop and expand educational resources and to develop the capacity of educational institutions for the purpose of providing quality education.
- Strengthen the monitoring and evaluation system to ensure the achievement of school education.
- To guide the concerned educational institutions and bodies and to play the role of regulator for achieving the national objective of school education.
Objectives:
- To prepare and submit the plan and budget of basic and primary, lower secondary, and secondary education to the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology (MoEST) on the basis of prescribed policies and rules.
- To implement primary and secondary education programs on the basis of policies and regulations made by the MoEST.
- To monitor and evaluate the programs related to primary, lower secondary, secondary, and higher secondary education and to send the progress report to the Ministry and related bodies.
- To prepare a plan for the career development of the employees and submit it to the MoEST.
- To make arrangements for the implementation of the programs of the Department of Education in coordination with the programs of the Central Bodies.
- To provide the necessary human resources for various programs to be conducted at the region and district level by the MoEST and the agencies affiliated with the Ministry.
- To make arrangements for the budget expenditure of the educational programs run with the help of the donor agencies and to make arrangements for its audit to be done in a timely manner.