The Ghana Education Service (GES) has launched a cutting-edge Management Information System (GESMIS) designed to revolutionize the management of education data in Ghana.
Per the date made public, a total of 298635 staff of the Ghana Education Service have enrolled on the portal. The staff are further broken into the following 22,342 basic schools made up of 11,330 KGs, 11,670 primary schools, 9563 Junior High schools, and 679 public SHSs been captured on the GESMIS portal.
The GESMIS platform provides a comprehensive and integrated system for managing education data, enhancing decision-making, and improving the overall efficiency of the education sector.
With GESMIS, the GES can track student performance, monitor teacher attendance, and manage school infrastructure, among other things. The system also prioritizes staff welfare, streamlining processes such as teacher transfers.
The launch of GESMIS is a significant milestone in the GES’s efforts to improve education access, quality, and relevance in Ghana.
While staff of the service have welcomed the GESMIS, some have asked the GES to make public the cost of the system. One of the staff who reacted to the news on the GES official Facebook page said, “By now, go and listen to the cost.”
Ato Arhinsah said, “Nice one, we’re making progress. However, what’s the cost of this cutting-edge MIS? Ghana we dey.”
Others called on the incoming government to embrase such innocations and used them to improve efficiency within the service. “We are hoping the incoming government will accept all these innovations and put them into use,” a teacher said.
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Other comments left on the GES post are shared below:
Kombat Chris: Positive development. But what happens to the promotion of teachers, especially on lower ranks who are due for promotion, have gone through the due process, but are not being promoted?
Johnloko Von Acolatse: One Negative scar Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum Kofi Ofosu Nkansah left on the face of Ghana Education Service was to intimidate headmasters who spoke against the poor implementation of the free SHS and how food contracts were given to party slay queens and girlfriends of ministers under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s led administration. Headmasters were not respected and were made to look timid. The opinions of Headmasters were rendered useless and were never respected.