1. Department of School Management
   
   
2. Department of Education Administration
   
   
3. Department of Teacher Empowerment
   
   
4. Department of Institutional Development
   
   
5. Guidance and Counselling Unit
   
   
6. Foreign Courses Unit

• Provide initial management training and orientation programmes for education leaders.
  
  
• Provide continuing professional support to education leaders at all levels to promote their career.
  
  
• Develop appropriate systems to enhance education management competencies to those who are in various levels in the education system.
  
  
• Improve community awareness and encourage community participation in education matters with special emphasis on school based management.
  
  
• Provide consultancy for institutional development at provincial, zonal and divisional levels.
  
  
• Collaborate and share educational management experiences with regional and International institutions.
  
  
• Collaborate with other agencies to develop a new role for the Sri Lankan teacher.
  
  
• Think critically and creatively to identify innovative models to improve quality of teacher education.
  
  
• Identify a variety of courses to meet initial and continuing education needs of teachers and teacher educators.
  
  
• Modernize curricula to facilitate initial and continuing teacher education.
  
  
• Prepare curriculum materials for programmes conducted at national level for training of teacher educators.
  
  
• Introduce innovative strategies for satisfactory implementation of teacher education programmes.
  
  
• Facilitate the role performance of teachers by catering to the development of background conditions needed for sound learning and teaching.
  
  
• Facilitate effective implementation of reforms in general education.