All Ministers of MOE hold a concurrent post as president of NAEA. Dr. Zhou Ji, the Minister of MOE is now concurrently the President of NAEA. 

The core of the NAEA mission is to offer training for senior educational administrators and carry out relevant research in the field of educational administration and management with a focus on the nation’s educational development and reform as well as the central tasks of MOE. In addition, it is responsible for assisting MOE personnel department and other departments in examining trainees and conducting investigation, research and consultation in the area of training of educational administrators and other fields of work. 

The training model consists of four types: senior seminars, training seminars, workshops and senior workshops. The trainees include senior leaders and middle managers from higher education institutions, educational officials from the provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities, cities and counties. At the same time it operates different training programs for different groups. The duration of training varies with the training programs. Most of the programs are short-term. Over 20,000 educational administrators and officials throughout the country have been trained since the country’s reform and opening-up policy in 1980s.

At present there are 54 full-time and part-time faculty, among them 25 are professors and associate professors. Government senior officials and renowned specialists and scholars both home and abroad are often invited as part-time lecturers. There are four academic departments, namely Department of Social Sciences, Department of Educational Theory, Department of Educational Administration and Department of International Education.

In addition, NAEA has an editorial office, which publishes the NAEA Journal and several other periodicals, all of which enjoy high reputation in education circles in the country. NAEA is also the home of the Secretariat of the National Research Society of Higher Education Administration.

In order to support the training activities, NAEA faculty conducts research with major strengths in educational administration and management. A large number of academic papers, books and mission reports completed by NAEA faculty are published each year, of which many have obtained national or international recognition in education circles

NAEA has been active in international education exchanges and co-operation. It has successfully implemented several projects funded successively by CIDA, UNDP, UNESCO, ADB and the World Bank on training and improvement of both higher and basic education administrators, and started to implement Overseas Training Project for University Leaders launched with joint effort by the Ministry of Education and the State Administration for Foreign Experts Affairs. Various linkages have been established with educational institutions in USA, Japan, Korea, UK, Germany, Canada, the Philippines, etc. and Hong Kong SAR. 

NAEA has a floorage of 40,000 square meters with modern facilities of multi-media education system, computer laboratory, language laboratory, conference hall and a nice hotel. 

In this new century, NAEA will continue to renew itself and forge ahead, in order to meet the challenges of the future and train more and more qualified educational leaders for the country.