The Permanent Secretary, Delta State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education, Mr. Augustine Oghoro, has reiterated the commitment of the Ministry to ensure that data collection was done in adherence with the state educational policy.
Mr. Oghoro stated this in Asaba while declaring open a -two day capacity building workshop organised by the Ministry for Education Management Information System (EMIS) officers fom the 25 Local Government Areas and those in the State Ministry’s headquarters, Asaba.
He said that the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education had a policy of gathering data annually, using the annual school census forms as collation instrument.
Oghoro explained that the Federal Ministry of Education provided a portal to be used for the purpose of data collection from school heads and principals using laptop, tablet or android phones to input the required data.
He urged participants to critically analyse the portal and be attentive to the resource persons, adding that they were equipped with the capacity to unveil the hidden criteria, factors and strategies needed to analyse the Federal Ministry of Education portal at different levels in the Annual School Census (ASC).
Earlier, the Director of Planning, Research and Statistics in the Ministry, Mr. Anthony Akponovo said that the training was centred on effective planning and policy making.
Akponovo stated that Education Management Information System (EMIS) has a vital role to play in providing credible information, stressing that the training was imperative in order to plan, articulate and work out modalities to improve on what EMIS was already doing.
He enjoined participants to submit their LGAs data to the State on time for prompt reporting of Nigeria Education Data and emphasized the need for strong synergy between the State and LGAs on prompt submission of data.
The resource persons including Mr. Orere Richard, Mr. Ozuor Patrick and Okoro S. T made presentations on application of technology in data collection, processing and management from manual practice to digital, introduction to 2023 data update template for public and private schools as well as introduction to Annual School Census portal.
BY MAGNUS EMUJI
