All modern educational institutions use multiple software tools and professional management practices to run institutions efficiently. When you look for a single system that connects all the activities of the institution, you will understand the significance of the education management information system(EMIS) working as the backbone of modern institutions.
The wide scale implementation of EMIS started recently along with the digital transformation trends in the last decade that digitised almost all other sectors. Even though schools were using simple software tools like spreadsheets, but now they have started implementing the EMIS tools only in the last decade. Before that, software solutions like EMIS or ERP(Enterprise Resource Planning Software) were affordable and practical only to rich private schools. The availability of high-speed internet and cloud hosting services decreased the cost of these advanced software tools for institutions and resulted in the wide scale implementation of EMIS and ERPs.
In this article, we will find out the major benefits and how management information system works as the backbone of schools, colleges, and universities.
An education management information system is a platform which let educational institutes to manage their data or information at a single place. This system act a data repository where institution can gather, store, and analyse the data, also create various reports which them help in monitor the institution growth & students academic progress in a real-time.
An ideal MIS in education not only help in managing the academic and administrative operations such as payroll management, fee management, transportation management, attendance data but also include learning management features which provide virtual learning space for students.
