There are several costs that are traditionally covered by an education management

information system, including:

Recruitment and payment of personnel dedicated to EMIS tasks at various administrative levels
(national, regional, district and school level).
Procurement of ICT infrastructure and technology that includes hardware and equipment (computers,
mobile devices, data servers, etc.), software, internet connectivity, physical space needed;
Maintenance costs involving recurrent costs such as IT license renewal fees, technical support for
hardware and software, and technicians to repair connectivity issues, etc.; and
Data collection and reporting of annual school census, involving costs for printing and copying,
logistics for distribution and collection of forms, publication of statistical reports, etc. [2]
A global education agenda and related initiatives may have also placed financial pressure on many
countries to be able to deploy more sophisticated EMIS, capable of monitoring service delivery or
education outcome for specific populations such as children with special needs, refugees and displaced
people, and capable of addressing specific data needs, such as learning outcomes from standardized
student assessments; socio-economic, housing, and health information from household surveys and
census data; socio-emotional and well-being standards from ad-hoc surveys, etc.[2]
An example of the pressure placed by the Sustainable Development Agenda on EMIS is the cost for
developing countries to be able to monitor and report on progress towards SDG 4 and the Framework
for Action. According to the UNESCO Institute for Statistics,[14] domestic investments needed to monitor
this goal over a ten-year period in 135 low- and middle-income countries would range anywhere
between 215 and US$248 million per year. This would include the collection of administrative data
collected through school census, the establishment of sample-based learning assessment in early
grade and at the last grade of primary.

See also[edit]
OpenEMIS
Educational management
Sustainable Development Goal 4

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