The Ministry of Education is set to streamline and centralize data across all levels of the education system.
The system codenamed Kenya Education Management System (KEMIS), will serve as a single source of truth and a one-stop shop for all information about learners and other critical aspects of education.
This follows a meeting between Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu with stakeholders at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) on Wednesday where they discussed the scope of the envisioned system.
Machogu said the web-based system will guarantee access to accurate data for planning and strategic decision-making on various aspects of education.
"The system will harmonise the management of data on education from Early Grade levels to higher education," the CS said.
Machogu said KEMIS will harmonise education data in the National Education Management System (NEMIS), Technical Vocational Education Management Information System (TVET-MIS) and Higher Education Management Information System (HEMIS).
KEMIS will also allow the tracking of all learners from Pre-primary, Primary, and Secondary, middle-level colleges as well as university education.
Among the stakeholders present during the engagement forum were Vice-Chancellor's Committee Chairman Daniel Mugendi, Chief Executive Officers from state corporations in the Ministry, officials from the Kenya Primary School Heads Association and the Kenya Heads of Secondary Schools.
The Presidential Working Party on Educational Reforms in their recommendations sought that KEMIS capture all learners from basic education institutions.
Where a learner is not registerable due to reasons which may include; lack of national identity card or being above 18 years old, the county director of education shall handle each case on its merit and where the reasons given are merited, the learner will be registered on KEMIS.
Additionally, the group recommended that general penalties for the falsification of data be provided in the regulations.
It is noted that those above 18 years are not admissible in the system, adding that there have been instances of falsification of information.
