SMIS launched in KP govt schools

PESHAWAR: Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education Muhammad Atif Khan has said that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government ensured the access of parents, students, researchers and other people to government schools by introducing School Management Information System (SMIS).

He added that now the parents and government functionaries could get information on single click. This he stated while addressing the launching ceremony of SMIS in Government Girls Higher Secondary School Lady Griffith here on Wednesday.

The minister maintained that in the first phase, 400 government schools would be linked with SMIS while it would gradually be replicated to the entire 28,000 government schools.  He said that SMIS was meant to bring betterment in the management of schools and promote a culture of transparency and accountability in this school.

The minister said that 83,000 teachers of government schools would be given special training of medium of instruction in collaboration with British Council and very soon an agreement would be signed to this effect. The minister asserted that 28,000 schools could not be made better at once, however, presently work on betterment of more than 15,000 schools was underway.