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EDUCATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM. INTEGRATION AND POLICY MAKING. EMIS Infrastructure and Components. EEE-P/ MoES /G/NCB/003/2011/Purchase of servers/licenses for improvement of hardware/software in MoES .
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EDUCATION MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM INTEGRATION AND POLICY MAKING
EMIS Infrastructure and Components • EEE-P/MoES/G/NCB/003/2011/Purchase of servers/licenses for improvement of hardware/software in MoES. • EEE-P/MoES/G/NCB/001/2011/Development of an application program for gathering, processing, analysis, generation of indicators and reports, dissemination of data in pre-university system.
Change Management • Unfreezing: the MoES must create dissatisfaction to allow old behaviours to be discarded (paper-based procedures) and new ones adopted (using electronic means for the administrative processes), increase the strength of those pressures pushing for change, decrease the strength of those forces resisting change, change a resisting force into one supporting the change. This stage has already been activated and will go on during all 2012. • Moving: creating a series of new behavioural patterns, need to take all the force into account, identify and evaluate on a ‘trial and error’ basis, all available options, use iterative learning approach in action research because without reinforcement change can be ‘short-lived’. This stage will be applied during 2013 for the whole year. • Refreezing: stabilise group to the new equilibrium, ensure new behaviours don’t regress, attitudes and beliefs are in a state of transition, new behaviour must fit with the rest of behaviour, personality and environment learner, if not lead to new round of disconfirmation, need to transform group norms and routines, possibly organisational culture, policies and practices, those forces resisting change may be stronger than those supporting change, efficiency will be reduced, confront disheartening effects. This stage will be applied for 2 academic years during 2014/2015 and 2015/2016.
Critical Success Factors • Involvement: neither change nor achievement can be accomplished if there is no confidence in it. • Competency: if persons are decided about change and implementation, they have to be capable of achieving it. Required competencies nowadays in the public administration are much more different compared to the past and they demand a considerable amount of training efforts, especially in the field of information technology. • Coordination: it does not suffice when a number of sectors work and some other don’t, especially when observing the strong links that directorates have in the administration. • Consolidation: it may happen that a number of outcomes may be achieved, but efforts turn back to check one with changes affecting various administrative tiers.
Recommendations to improve/strengthen EMIS role • EMIS is a continuous process. • Ensure up-to-date information and data quality. • Training of IT experts and users also on how to create education policies. • The crucial understanding of what drives the diffusion of technology in the education system and in the work place. • The availability of resources: both human and infrastructure must be guaranteed.