To provide our young people with adequate care, appropriate educational foundation and opportunity for higher study, the DOE continually assesses the educational and human resource requirements of our communities in exile. According to these needs, the DOE performs a wide variety of functions. Such functions include but are not limited to the following:

•     Providing administrative guidance in overseeing schools;
•     Coordinating Sponsorship and Scholarship programs;
•     Coordinating Scholarship programs;
•     Creating new schools, teacher training centers and institutions while improving existing ones;
•     Recruiting teachers and arranging in-service training for them;
•     Running an employment and placement bureau;
•     Continual research, planning and development;
•     Reviewing and supplying text books and other required resource materials;
•     Providing necessary buildings and constructions;
•     Raising and appropriating funds.

The organizational setup at the Department: