The FCT Education Secretariat was created by virtue of Presidential Order No. 1 of 2004 as a Mandate Secretariat with the responsibility of formulation and implementation of policies on education in all its ramifications in the FCT.

The FCT Education Secretariat has the mandate of ensuring that education policies emanating from the Federal Ministry of Education are domesticated to the needs of FCT as they concern provision of access to education and effective delivery of the national school curriculum.

Departments:

1. i)    Universal Basic Education Board (UBEB);
2. ii)    Secondary Education Board (SEB);

iii)    Education Resource Centre (ERC);

1. iv)    FCT College of Education (COE);
2. v)    Abuja University of Technology, Abaji (AUTA);
3. vi)    Department of Education Policy, Planning, Research & Statistics  (PPR&S);

vii)    FCT Scholarship Board;

viii)    Department of Higher Education

1. ix)    Department of Administration and Finance;
2. x)    Department of Quality Assurance (DQA);