MISSIONS
●To guarantee the right for instruction and training to all Tunisian nationals, and this according to the dispositions of the orientation law number 2002-80 dated July 23rd, related to education and school teaching of the law number 93-10 dated February 17th 1993 on the orientation law of vocational training.

●To develop the education and training system and to promote it so that it contributes to improve the general scientific and cultural level of the Tunisian people and to allow all individuals to access the highest levels of knowledge and qualification according to the renewed requirements of the society and the needs of development of the country with the aim of setting up a national economy based on knowledge.

●To monitor the public education and training system and the depending institutions and structures on the central, regional and local level as well, and to ensure the follow-up and the development according to quality norms and the equity principle.

●To ensure the complementarity and the interaction between the cycles, the circles and fields of school education and vocational training and to define the ways to reach it, and prepare for the higher education and/or to the active life on the basis of the distribution of the learners in the different fields, sections and specialties taking into account their skills and the structural needs, present and future, of the employment market.
 

●To promote forms of teaching and alternate training between the school and vocational training centers and in the framework of partnership with economic institutions, so as to improve the employability of learners and to ensure the adequacy between training and the employment market needs.

●To establish the referentials, national norms and standards required in the fields of education, training and evaluation, and to ensure their implementation and development with regard to the changes occurring in the education, training and employment sectors.

●To define the ways of evaluation and certification in conformity with the national norms and standards and to ensure their implementation.

●To diversify the forms and ways of teaching and training using in-class and self apprenticing, the use of the new communication and information technologies in the different school and training activities and to promote distance learning and training via schools and virtual centers.