Улаанбаатар
Education system to be fully digitized in academic year of 2019-2020
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/
The Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports announced today that the education sector is to be fully digitized in the academic year of 2019-2020.
Mongolia and the Asian Development Bank have been implementing a project
regarding information technology in the education sector since 2014. The
project has created a system which had been used for basic registration,
exchange of statistical data, now the system has been expanded to address to teachers,
students, and parents of secondary schools and kindergartens. Introduction of
the system will eliminate paper and reduce teachers’ workload. For instance,
teachers will be able to directly submit their feedback to the Minister of
Education, Culture, Science and Sports. Parents’ involvement in child rearing
and activities of schools, and kindergartens will be improved, allowing parents
to obtain all information about their children including report card and
attendance record using Internet. Furthermore, the corresponding Ministry will
be able to devise a plan after analyzing actual data such as school enrollment rate
and shortage or excess in the number of teachers. The service will be accessible to parents
through ESIS application which can be installed from the Google Play Store. The
project team has developed and is ready to introduce a number of subsystems.
Minister of Education,
Culture, Science and Sports Ts.Tsogzolmaa noted “Education statistics is a
broad concept. IT specialists collected statistical data of educational
institutions in the nine districts and 21 aimags over the last four years. In
order to improve the accessibility and quality of education, we have to support
teachers, enhance quality of education and increase parents’ involvement. The
world is adopting digital education system. We are planning to use e-gradebooks
starting from next academic year. The system provides people with an
opportunity to receive information on statistical data of the education sector
including investment, construction, exit exam, entrance exam, scholarships and
tenders, making information of the education system transparent. Our goal is to
further develop the system.”
Subsystems for parents
and teachers were developed from October, 2017 and is ready to be introduced in
this academic year.
