• Implement the national system of formal and non-formal education;
• Implement the state policy on education and science in accordance to law;
• Coordinate the activity of the Lithuanian institutions active in the fields of education and science.
• To fulfil these goals, the ministry:

1. Develops annual and long-term educational investment programmes;
2. Approves requirements for the regulations of state‑run and municipal schools;
3. Approves the general curriculum and achievement levels of formal education;
4. Organises and coordinates the accreditation of the secondary education programmes;
5. Approves the procedure of consecutive learning under general education programmes as well as the procedure for organisation and implementation of the Matura exams;
6. Establishes, liquidates, and reorganises vocational schools as well as approves general vocational education plans.

Local authorities are responsible for:

• Organisation of pre-primary education and general education;
• Establishment, liquidation, and reorganisation of regular and vocational schools;
• Ensuring learning according to the programmes of compulsory education;
• Organisation and coordination of educational assistance to children, teachers, families, schools;
• Implementation of minimal child care arrangements;
• Organisation of pre-school education, non-formal education for children and adults, organisation of activities for children and youth;
• Organisation of meal services in educational establishments;
• Managing the provision with school supplies of pupils from low-income families;
• Maintenance of schools (classes) which implement general education programmes and are designed for children with exceptional talents or special needs;
• Organisation of free transportation to the schools for children residing in rural areas that are further than 3 km from an educational establishment.
   

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Education, Science and Sport