The Department provides management and coordination of pedagogical activity of Kazan Federal University  departments, Coordination Сouncil on pedagogical education, the Center of pre-university education, work of KFU in the conditions of cluster approach, activities for the organization of professional orientation works with the organizations of the general education, PPE (Primary professional education), SPO (secondary professional education).

Performance of the following functions is assigned to the Department:

- realization of interaction with lyceums, basic schools, comprehensive schools, gymnasiums of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Volga Federal Region

- monitoring and the analysis of the tasks realization in the pre-university sphere and general education meant for KFU

- realization of the organization, coordination and control of the work which is carried out in the pre-university sphere and general education of the following departments in KFU structure:

- Center of pre-university education

- Educational and methodical center of testing and preparation for State Final Examination

- Volga Region Center for Further Training and Professional Retraining

- IT- Lyceum (boarding school)

- N. Lobachevsky Lyceum (boarding school)

- interaction with authorized republican and federal bodies, organizations  in the Russian Federation and other countries concerning pre-university, pedagogical education, professional formation of youth.