2. In the fields within his competence, the duties of the Minister shall include, more particularly,(1) adopting measures designed to contribute to the training and development of individuals;
(2) ensuring the development of educational institutions;
(2.1) seeing to the quality and improvement of the educational services provided by educational institutions and, to that end, assessing the quality of those services;
(3) encouraging consultation and cooperation between departments and agencies and interested persons;
(4) encouraging and coordinating the development and diffusion of information;
(5) seeing to educational success;
(6) ensuring monitoring of students’ educational path and, in particular, identifying its determinants so as to positively influence it, identifying difficulties as well as the interventions capable of fostering educational success, measuring the effectiveness of those interventions and monitoring the evolution of certain specific trends; and
(7) fostering education system resources management and planning based on, among other things, knowledge of students’ needs and, to that end, collecting the information necessary to assess those needs and to make that assessment.