You, your school and the national education authority, also derive benefits from the use of ICT by streamlining administration. From your perspective, ICT can help you track attendance, watch individual student progress, create reports and track your subject departmental budget. Both the school and the education authority require data to make informed planning decisions. They need to collect information about student enrolments, student promotions, school procurements of consumables, external service providers, teaching materials, etc. ICT can efficiently and quickly coordinate and process all this data and provide statistics and analytics.
Many schools use a school management system to capture this data, and many education departments have set up networks that centralize the data sent electronically from multiple schools.
Reflect on these potential benefits for your school:
