The Ministry of Education and Sports has warned that candidates whose schools will have not registered them on the Education Management Information System will not receive their exams.
In July this year, the Education Ministry working with the National Identification and Registration Authority-NIRA rolled out a program that required all schools both private and public at all levels to register their learners on the revamped EMIS.
The registration was to among other things serve as baseline information for learner verification and issuance of National Identification Numbers-NINs and facilitate education planning and handling of continuous assessment even when a learner changes school.
However, five months down the road, many schools have not registered their learners in the system. According to Ketty Lamaro, the Ministry of Education Permanent Secretary, they have instituted sanctions for schools that will fail to provide the required learner information.
“If the school fails to register the P.7 S.4 and S.6 candidates 2022, we shall move to withhold their UNEB result,” says Lamaro.
She added that in the next year's examination cycle, learners who don’t appear on the EMIS system will not be registered for national examinations.
“I want to reiterate that all secondary schools and local governments that fail to upload their learners will be deliberately frustrating the newly launched lower secondary curriculum. Starting early next year, head teachers will be transmitting learner’s continuous assessment scores to UNEB using NINs,” the permanent secretary warns.
Lamaro further warned that all government institutions that will not register their learners on the system, will not receive their capitation grant since funding will be pegged on learners who have been uniquely identified and registered while for private schools their license and registration certificates will be revoked.
According to available statistics from the education ministry, ever since the program started 6.76 million learners have been uploaded to the portal against the projected 17 million learners across the entire education system (pre-primary to university). Out of the submitted information, 4.1 million learners without NINs have been submitted to NIRA for further management.
However, several lower education officers including headteachers and district education officers are blaming top officials for the poor performance of the program.
