GEORGETOWN, Guyana -Educators from the sub-regional Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are meeting here for a knowledge exchange program, hoping to gain an insight into the recently launched Education Management Information System (EMIS).
Educators from the OECS learning about Guyana’s EMIS programThe Minstry of education said that the EMIS is designed for gathering, integrating, processing, maintaining, and disseminating data and information. It facilitates decision-making, policy analysis, formulation, planning, monitoring, and management across all levels of an education system.
The ministry said that this system integrates individuals, technology, models, methods, processes, procedures, rules, and regulations, to help decision-makers, managers, and general users to have access to pertinent data and information to make informed decisions.
The officials here said that the primary objective of the 10 educators from Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines is to acquire knowledge on the technical, financial, human, and software aspects required to develop a fit-for-purpose EMIS for their respective Ministries of Education.
As part of the itinerary, the delegation will participate in discussions with various officers from the Ministry of Education and visit schools that actively use the EMIS on a daily basis before their departure on the weekend.
