Basque Government

Departments - Education

Functions and areas of activity

The Department of Education has the following functions and areas of action:

  1. The faculties derived from the Statute of Autonomy in relation to both general and special regime education, including its various stages and levels, and higher education, as well as those learning activities that involve the acquisition or increase of qualifications throughout a lifetime.
  2. The exercise of management, management and planning functions in the field of vocational training, in accordance with the provisions of article 19.1 of Law 4/2018, of June 28, on Vocational Training of the Basque Country, with the collaboration of the competent departments and bodies in the field of professional training for employment and non-regulated professional training in agricultural and nautical-fishing matters.
  3. science policy; promotion and coordination of theoretical and applied research.
  4. Direct, in accordance with the laws and regulations, the public sector entities are attached or dependent on the department.
  5. Other faculties are attributed to it by laws and regulations.

 

The Superior Body for the Coordination of Vocational Training, the public entity under private law “Unibasq-Agencia de Calidad del Sistema Universitario Vasco”, the “Haurreskolak” consortium and the “Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco-Musikene” are attached to this department. ».

 

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