Education Ministry to track learners in government-aided schools

The ministry revealed that about 3.7 million learners' academic progress in different government-aided primary and secondary schools across the country is unknown.

The education ministry rolled out the new system last year, but it appears most schools have been slow in trying to adopt it in their day-to-day learners’ teaching.

According to the education ministry’s Commissioner of Education Planning, Robert Bellarmine Okudi, who read the permanent secretary’s speech at a media training recently, a total of 11.5 million learners out of the expected 15 million have been uploaded onto the system so far.

Okudi said that there is a possibility that most school heads have not registered the majority of the learners, much as there is also suspicion that some of these might have dropped out of school.

Some stakeholders have, however, blamed the education ministry for not taking time to sensitise the schools on how the system works.

By December 2022, 10.2 million of these learners had been uploaded, with another 1.3 million added since the beginning of the year, thus leading to a total of 11.5 million.

However, 6.5 million of the 11.5 million learners who were uploaded last year have been promoted to their next classes on the EMIS this year. This means that 3.7 million pupils in the system have not been advanced to the following class.