Abstract

For today’s education systems’ success, effective policy-making and system monitoring through data and information are essential. Using education management information systems (EMIS), many countries all over the world got involved in collecting, processing, and managing more and better data. However, design and development of EMIS focused on information technology enhancements, and/ or data storage and maintenance, with scarce concentration on the management context in which EMIS operates and data utilization for policy decisions. This paper reviews the technical, organizational, and institutional conditions required to enable information-based decision-making for effective system management. Demand creation for information and the nurturing of a culture of open communication, information sharing, and information use along with technical capacity building. The purpose of this study to determine the various functional areas for deploying EMIS for information goverance in higher education institutions.

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