S.L. 595.24 Art. 3Functions and duties of the Agency.

(1) The functions and duties of the Agency shall be to:

(a) create high level accredited courses at various EQF levels for the needs and interests of education practitioners and stakeholders;

(b) collaborate with Education Departments, Colleges and schools and other entities and institutions whether government or private, local or international, in designing and providing quality courses that cater for all the professional needs of education practitioners and stakeholders;

(c) provide professional formation, skills, attitudes and practices and implement activities consistent with or in support of the Government policies and educational frameworks;

(d) provide advice in relation to issues, needs and practices with reference to European and, or international training programmes and furthermore in relation to the socio-economic needs from time to time;

(e) through research, to clarify, understand and widen the various aspects of educational leadership;

(f) develop a leadership and autonomous vision for schools;

(g) create a learning community act for educators to meet and share common experiences, challenges and possibilities;

(h) nurture a meaningful, truly engaging awareness of education in a wider sense and its dialectal relationship with life;

(i) encourage reflective educational leadership that is aware of its qualities, possibilities, challenges and limits, personally, socially, and professionally, hence becoming a leadership that nurtures trust and hope;

(j) act as a meaningful forum for educational policy discussions;

(k) carry out any other function which is related to or ancillary to the above.

(2) The Agency shall keep under review the workings of this Order, and where deemed required, at the request of the Minister or otherwise, submit proposals for the Order’s review.