The Libyan Ministry of Education, supported by UNICEF Libya, launched on Sunday the Education Management Information System (EMIS).
EMIS aims to provide an accurate statistical system capable of keeping pace with modern educational developments and avoiding errors that may result from entering data, including general information about the educational institution, detailed information about students, employees in educational institutions, and supervisors, administrators and teachers and their specializations, according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Education.
EMIS was launched during a ceremony held at the Corinthia Hotel in the presence of the Undersecretary of the Ministry, Masouda Al-Aswad, and a number of ministry officials, in addition to the UNICEF representative in Libya, the Deputy and Director of the Education Department at the organization, and representatives of the General Authority for Information and the Information Security Authority.
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education, Masouda Al-Aswad, said during her speech at the ceremony that EMIS “aims to create an incubator for integrated educational databases that helps decision-makers in making and building decisions.
Al-Aswad reviewed the ministry’s steps to launch the project, which included launching the pilot phase for 205 educational institutions from all over the country, training thirty employees from the Information and Documentation Center, and the Planning and Strategies Department at the ministry on how to use and manage the system, in addition to creating online surveys to collect data from educational institutions.
