Candidates writing this year’s KCPE and KCSE will be the first batch to use the Unique Personal Identifiers (UPI).
The new system will replace the traditional index numbers, the ministry of Education said on Friday.
This followed the expected launch of the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) in September.
Details of learners will be uploaded on the system for easy identification throughout their career.
Students will use a single UPI at all levels of their education right from ECD to University level.
This will make it easy to track their education progress and eliminate the culture of fake certificates and unpaid HELB loans.
The web-based system that offers seamless data management of learners is part of education reforms.
The adoption of UPIs follows President Uhuru Kenyatta's directive to the examination council (Knec) last year.
The system will facilitate financial management of schools and guide the government in the allocation of funds.
It will also enable the government to generate data on the teacher-student ratio in every school.
"Allocation of resources will never be an act of guesswork as we go forward," Education CS Fred Matiang’i said.
He spoke on Friday at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development during the training of education officials on the use of NEMIS.
The officials were drawn from the Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association (KESSHA), Kenya Primary Schools Heads Association (KEPSHA) and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA).
"It is time for us to now operate with accurate information on the education sector of our country."
"We will work with a measure of certainty on how many children we have in and out school," Matiang’i told the officials.
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The new system will replace the traditional index numbers, the ministry of Education said on Friday.
This followed the expected launch of the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) in September.
Details of learners will be uploaded on the system for easy identification throughout their career.
Students will use a single UPI at all levels of their education right from ECD to University level.
This will make it easy to track their education progress and eliminate the culture of fake certificates and unpaid HELB loans.
The web-based system that offers seamless data management of learners is part of education reforms.
The adoption of UPIs follows President Uhuru Kenyatta's directive to the examination council (Knec) last year.
The system will facilitate financial management of schools and guide the government in the allocation of funds.
It will also enable the government to generate data on the teacher-student ratio in every school.
"Allocation of resources will never be an act of guesswork as we go forward," Education CS Fred Matiang’i said.
He spoke on Friday at the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development during the training of education officials on the use of NEMIS.
The officials were drawn from the Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association (KESSHA), Kenya Primary Schools Heads Association (KEPSHA) and the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA).
"It is time for us to now operate with accurate information on the education sector of our country."
"We will work with a measure of certainty on how many children we have in and out school," Matiang’i told the officials.
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