The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has advised state governments to train teachers and educators on the use of mobile technology in gathering data.
This call was buttressed during the third conference on education management information system in Makurdi, Benue State Capital.
Mayowa Okunato reports that Educational Management Information System is a database designed to ensure timely, accurate and appropriate education data and information for decision making.
This database will make it easier to develop an annual school census can be acquired.
Participants at this conference lay emphasis on how crucial the use of mobile technology is at this time in Nigerians education system.
This conference also brings together partners and key players in the education sector across the country. They are to deliberate on ways to improve the paradigm of technology driven data collection
Representing the minister of education, the permanent secretary to the ministry urges all state to train teachers on facilitating data gathering through the use of mobile technology.
The Deputy Governor of Benue State While launching the manual of training school teachers, he said the introduction would be a stepping stone for the country at large.
The theme of this conference is Mobile technology: a veritable tool for enhancing the generation of credible, reliable and timely data.
With this new initiative skills in data use would also be developed at all levels of government.
