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NEMIS – Elimu Pedia https://elimupedia.com Number One portal for matters education, How to, TSC,KUCCPS, HELB,KRA , Top 10 bests,and Parenting. Tue, 28 Feb 2023 03:38:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Man Sues MOE Over NEMIS Ownership https://elimupedia.com/man-sues-moe-over-nemis-ownership.html Tue, 28 Feb 2023 03:38:44 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=11413 Man Sues MOE Over NEMIS Ownership

A man has gone to court seeking an injunction to stop the use of the National Educational Management Information System (Nemis), claiming that he is the outright owner.

If successful, the action can scuttle the operations of the ministry, which uses the programme to keep a record of learners’ data and disburse funds to schools.

George Kamau, through his company Netresource Ltd, maintains that he is the copyright owner of a computer programme and software known as Institutions Network that he presented to the Ministry of Education in 2014 seeking a partnership.

Kamau says he was involved in engagements with ministry officials but his efforts were not successful since the ministry turned down his offer but unveiled Nemis, which resembles his software, in 2018.

He has sued the ministry, the Education Cabinet Secretary, the Attorney-General and Mr Benson Omondi who was an IT employee at the ministry.

“Netresource Ltd intended to license the copyrighted computer programme and/or software known as ‘Institutions Network’ to the Ministry of Education at Sh50,000 per institution,” the application reads.

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Mr Kamau says most of the correspondence to the Ministry of Education was never received in the official stamp and that communication to his company from the ministry and government officials were in form of personal emails and phone numbers.

“These acts were carried out with ill motives. They were maliciously intended to fraudulently infringe on Netresource’s proprietary rights in the computer software and/or programme known as Institutional Network,” the application reads.

Mr Kamau says Mr Omondi invited him to make a presentation to ministry officials on February 8, 2015.

“On November 8, 2015…I submitted the codes to the copyrighted computer programme and/or software known as ‘Institutions Network’, together with its database to Mr Benson Omondi…at his offices…to showcase and pitch its usefulness,” the court papers read.

“Present at the meeting was the chairperson, Mrs Rebecca Gathoni. By the end of the meeting, the chairperson commented: ‘We will definitely recommend this system’.”

Mr Kamau says he was later requested to submit a concept note and made a presentation to the directorates of the ministry at Jogoo House headquarters on December 9, 2016.

“Having been satisfied by our presentation on the concept note, the officials of the Ministry of Education wrote a preliminary report apprising the same,” he says.

“On January 12, 2017, the report was forwarded to the Director Partnerships in the Ministry of Education and was consequently shared through email correspondence between themselves and us.”

He adds that a planned meeting between his company, then-Education CS Fred Matiang’i, Principal Secretary Belio Kipsang and the Director-general aborted at the eleventh hour in March 2017.

The suit papers say he was later informed by the director of ICT Lynn Nyongesa that the Institutions Network programme had been overtaken by events and that the ministry was working on its programme known as Nemis.

The ministry developed Nemis through a $88,400,000 grant from the Global Partnership for Education. The system was rolled out in January 2018.

In a reply to the application, Principal State Counsel Emmanuel Kiarie says it does not allude to any contract between Netresource and the Ministry of Education, meaning there is no breach of contract.

He adds that Netresource failed to demonstrate how Nemis infringes on copyright work relating to Institutions Network.

He says Nemis does not have a commercial benefit to the government as the ministry never charges users to access it.

“Therefore, there is no danger that the subject matter is likely to be sold or wasted by the respondents,” he says.

“Nemis…has captured details of millions of students, parents and guardians and so there is need for the court to safeguard and ensure the safety of private, personal and confidential data.”

]]> Form One Placement to Be Ready by January 16-How Placement Will Be Done https://elimupedia.com/form-one-placement-to-be-ready-by-january-16-how-placement-will-be-done.html Thu, 22 Dec 2022 04:14:54 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=10848 Form One Placement to Be Ready by January 16-How Placement Will Be Done

Form One placement for the 2022 Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) exam candidates is set to be completed by January 16, precisely a week before schools reopen.

According to Education Cabinet Secretary Ezekiel Machogu, early completion of the selection process will give parents adequate time to prepare their children to join secondary school. However, the cs did not indicate the date when the learners will join Form One.

“The Ministry is determined to place the 2022 KCPE candidates in secondary schools as soon as possible …The actual Form One selection exercise for all categories of schools will be concluded on January 16, 2023.”

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Learners are placed in secondary schools based on factors such as performance, overall performance, their school choices, capacity of the schools and affirmative action, especially when it comes to national schools..

Candidates select 11 schools before they sit the exam. They pick four national schools – one from each from four clusters.

For extra-county schools, the ministry uses a 15:35:50 ratio, with the host sub-county getting 15 per cent of the vacancies, the county gets 35 per cent while candidates from other regions get 50 per cent. Candidates select three extra-county schools.

All special needs institutions are categorised as national schools and so admit learners from all over the country.

Candidates also select two county and two sub-county schools.

There are 112 national schools, 776 extra-county, 1,301 county, 6,297 sub-county and 1,301 private secondary schools. There are 1,803 public boarding secondary schools and 479 private ones. This is against 5,029 public and 432 private day schools. Those that have both boarding and day wings are 390 (private) and 2,245 (public).

Inmates, overage candidates and candidates from refugee camps are not placed in secondary schools.

A total of 1,233,852 candidates sat the 2022 examinations with all qualifying for admission to Form One in line with the government’s 100 per cent transition policy.

Of the candidates, 620,965 (50.32 per cent) were boys while 612,887 (49.6 per cent) were girls, a clear indication that the country has achieved gender parity at primary school level.

“All the candidates whose results I am releasing today will be admitted to Form One under the 100 per cent transition policy. There should be no case of a guardian or parent keeping their children at home when admission to Form One is opened up,” said Mr Machogu.

The candidates were examined in English, mathematics, science, Kiswahili, and social studies and religious education – on November 28-30, 2022.

This is the second-last KCPE exam, with the last 8-4-4 cohort set to complete primary school next year, giving way to the competency-based curriculum (CBC).

Mr Solomon Munene, the national vice-chairperson of the Kenya Private Schools Association called for fairness in allocation of slots to top secondary schools. He claimed that the selection has in the past disadvantaged learners from private schools.

“Let us reward hard work and let all candidates be able to access the secondary schools of their choice as per their performance.,” he said.

He also asked the government to include private secondary schools in the selection and placement and give them capitation like it does for public secondary schools.

]]> Magoha Launches Fresh Drive For New Foolproof Nemis system https://elimupedia.com/magoha-launches-fresh-drive-for-new-foolproof-nemis-system.html Sun, 31 Jul 2022 03:03:42 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=8444 Magoha Launches Fresh Drive For New Foolproof Nemis system

Education CS George Magoha has confirmed plans to improve Nemis system to be foolproof to curb free education cartels.

He said the ministry is working on a plan to launch a foolproof National Education Management Information System to end perennial corruption, especially among schools and administration units.

Magoha said Kenyans are currently not getting value for money, especially under free education, as cartels have re-engineered Nemis.

“We are going to have Nemis that will have data which can’t be changed, this will stay even in transition. We can’t have a system where before money is sent, the number changes,” he said.

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Magoha said 25.9 per cent of the budget goes to the education sector, an amount he said is sufficient, “but the problem is getting value for money which is affected by corruption”.

He said since taking charge of the ministry, he has been sealing corruption loopholes and the new Nemis is one of them.

“We will have a Nemis which nobody can enter and change figures, we will have a consistent number of children in schools,” Magoha said.

He was speaking at Kadika Girls Secondary School in Suna East constituency where he checked the progress of Competency Based Curriculum classrooms in schools.

]]> NEMIS To Be Replaced By a CBC-Supported Data Management System https://elimupedia.com/nemis-to-be-replaced-by-a-cbc-supported-data-management-system.html Mon, 06 Jun 2022 04:00:34 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=6850 NEMIS To Be Replaced By a CBC-Supported Data Management System

The National Education Management Information System (NEMIS) which has served since 2017, is due for replacement since it will be inefficient under the competency-based curriculum, CBC.

As confirmed by officials from the Ministry of Education, the NEMIS system will be abolished because it cannot blend properly with the new curriculum.

As it is Currently NEMIS only assists MOE to know the enrollment in schools so as to inform the ministry’s termly disbursement of government capitation in schools and cannot capture accurate data for learners and educational institutions.

According to State Department for the Implementation of Curriculum Reforms PS Fatuma Chege however, NEMIS does not help in linking data with the new education system.

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Chege has hinted that the government will spend millions of shillings to build a fresh data system to capture learners’ details under the new education curriculum.

“I found issues being raised about NEMIS when I joined the ministry… But we need a new database for our function of monitoring and evaluating learners across the entire education system,”said Chege.

While Knec gives assessment number to monitor learners under Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC), NEMIS gives UPI numbers to same learners.

Chege says they want a system that will be able to monitor learners academically from time they join school to university and this is not possible with NEMIS.

Even though Chege did not state how much the new system would cost, she hinted of a Sh572 million gap to fund a number of activities in her office.

“Our funding request was raised to Sh911.90 million. This leaves us with a deficit of Sh572.60 million,”said Chege.

The development gives a glimpse into the cost of the new curriculum under the 2-6-3-3-3 education system.

Kezzia Wandera,deputy director quality assurance and standards,said NEMIS only aligns itself to primary and secondary education and does not take care of pre-primary, tertiary and university education.

“We would want a one-stop shop of data from pre-primary,all the way to tertiary and universities. This is how we shall be able to holistically execute the mandate we have been assigned,”said Wandera.

According to CBC task force report,each learner should be given a tracking number at Grade 3 after sitting school-based assessments (SBA).

The number,according to the report,will be used to monitor learners progress as they transition in the subsequent education levels.

“This unique number will be used throughout the learners academic life and will be used to track their performance,” said Chege.

]]> Schools to Miss Government Capitation for Failing to Acknowledge Receipt of Funds https://elimupedia.com/schools-to-miss-government-capitation-for-failing-to-acknowledge-receipt-of-funds.html Sun, 08 May 2022 04:12:46 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=6564 Schools to Miss Government Capitation for Failing to Acknowledge Receipt of Funds

The Ministry of Education has asked all public schools to acknowledge that they have received capitation funds, whenever they do, or they will not receive the funds until they acknowledge it. Only those schools that acknowledge this, either through National Education Information Management System (NEMIS) or manually, will continue receiving support from the government.

The ministry, through a circular dated April 28 and signed by Dr. Julius Jwan, the Principal Secretary for Basic Education, disclosed that there were concerns raised from the 2021-2022 audit review that most schools across the country have not acknowledged receipt of funds disbursed by the government.

Schools that have not acknowledged receipt of funds have therefore been given up to May 7 to do so either through a letter to the ministry or through NEMIS.

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Currently, in Kenya, the government funds each student in public schools to a tune of Sh. 22,244 per year. That means about Sh 7,400 per quarter, which is calculated by the number of students each school has in order to get the figure that schools receive annually.

In April, during the Kenya Secondary School Heads Association (KESSHA) annual conference held in Mombasa, school heads led by their Chairman, Indimuli Kahi requested the government to raise the figure from Sh. 22,244 to Sh.30,000 for each student.

These capitations came through the free education initiative brought by the third president of Kenya, the late Mwai Kibaki which begun when he took office in January 2003.

About 10,000 public secondary schools and over 25,000 public primary schools are beneficiaries of the government capitation.

]]> Magoha MOE Staff Of Corruption, Underground Deals https://elimupedia.com/magoha-moe-staff-of-corruption-underground-deals.html Wed, 30 Mar 2022 03:12:39 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=5970 Magoha MOE Staff Of Corruption, Underground Deals

Ministry of Education staff are in a spot over allegations some of them pilfer public resources.

Since assuming office at Jogoo House, Education Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has complained about staff he says orchestrate underhanded deals.

He complains about procurement of textbooks, accuracy of National Education Management Information System (Nemis) and exaggerated unit costing of desks and classrooms.

“There is still a small cartel within my ministry and nobody should be surprised the way I do things. I was in Kenya National Examination Council (Knec) and I made things work.

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“I have come here to protect the rights of parents and children. Any time I cannot do that, I have no business being in this ministry,” Prof Magoha said in November 2020.

Questions are now being asked about the invisible hands that Prof Magoha claim are pilfering resources at the ministry.

Prof Magoha accuses them of either inflating costs of items, giving fake data on students and schools or giving wrong information about the sector.

The latest is the claim that someone at his office attempted to inflate cost of constructing classrooms under the project aimed at enhancing transition of learners to junior secondary schools.

While releasing the 2021 KCPE results on Monday, Prof Magoha accused some Education ministry officials of conspiring to inflate unit cost of classrooms by nearly half a million shillings.

He said the ministry had already constructed 6,497 classrooms, at a cost of Sh5.123 billion, to accommodate the CBC pioneer class.

“Each of these classrooms cost Sh788,000. So we must start asking ourselves where the extra Sh426,000 has been going to. Most of the classrooms before these were constructed at Sh1.26 million each,” said Prof Magoha.

“If you are saying the same classes cost Sh788,000, where are you taking the rest of the money?”

On November 14, 2020, Prof Magoha raised similar concerns during the procurement of desks for schools. He said he had identified lapses within the ministry where public funds have been misappropriated.

“A key example is in the primary school sector where due diligence identified an inflation of numbers of learners from 8.47 million to nine million. The shortfall of 529,997 learners has led to the saving of Sh752,594,740 annually,” he said.

The CS also accused some of his staff of planning to pilfer part of the Sh1.9 billion Government Stimulus Programme for the delivery of desks in schools.

“When I did due diligence of establishing the market prices of the desks, I realised that the unit cost at the ministry had been inflated by Sh1,700,” said Prof Magoha. Addressing secondary school heads in June, 2019, the CS said he does not understand the Nemis and could not trust anyone with the details.

“For the next two to three weeks, I will camp at Nemis to understand it because I don’t believe anybody and I don’t believe what they are telling me.”

Appearing before the National Assembly Education Committee in February, Fatuma Chege, the PS State Department for Implementation of Curriculum Reforms, poked holes into the Nemis saying ‘it has issues.’

“I found issues being raised about Nemis when I joined the ministry. But we need a new data base for our function of monitoring and evaluating learners across the entire education system,” said Ms Chege.

The PS said Nemis only aligns to primary and secondary education and does not take care of pre-primary, tertiary and university education.

Yet, the system that was launched in 2017, was billed as the ultimate one stop shop for data on all leaners.

Prof Magoha has on many occasions questioned students ands schools’ data at the ministry with regards to textbooks distribution.

]]> NEMIS To Be Replaced With A New Data System Under CBC https://elimupedia.com/nemis-to-be-replaced-with-a-new-data-system-under-cbc.html Wed, 09 Feb 2022 04:03:57 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=5496 NEMIS To Be Replaced With new data system Under CBC

The Government is likely to spend millions of shillings to build a fresh data system to capture learners’ details under the new competency-based curriculum.

Fresh details reveal that the National Education Management Information System (NEMIS), in its present design, is unable to accurately capture accurate data for learners and schools. State Department for Implementation of Curriculum Reforms PS Fatuma Chege confirmed to members of parliament that NEMIS it has issues.

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“Our funding request was raised to Sh911.90 million. This leaves us with a deficit of Sh572.60 million,” said Chege.

This revelation gives some information regarding the cost of Competency-Based Curriculum under the new education system. Chege listed six top challenges her department is facing on the implementation of the new curriculum, among them being inadequate funding of the activities in her office.

Other hiccups she said are emergent policy concerns, which necessitate strengthening of collaborations with stakeholders, including county governments, sports and talent development entities. She also cited inadequate staffing, weak technical capacities for monitoring and evaluation of curriculum reforms among education management staff and general misinformation about curriculum reforms.

What, however, stood out is the challenge on uncoordinated data sources. Chege’s concerns were supported by the deputy director quality assurance and standards, Kezzia Wandera, who said said that NEMIS only aligns itself to primary and secondary education and does not take care of pre-primary, tertiary and university education.

“We would want a one-stop shop of data from pre-primary, all the way to tertiary and universities. This is how we shall be able to holistically execute the mandate we have been assigned,” said Wandera.

This means that the multi-million system launched in 2017 when Fred Matiang’i was the Education Cabinet Secretary may be abolished and more money pumped into a new system. According to CBC task force report, each learner should be given a tracking number at Grade 3 after sitting school-based assessments.

]]> Updated: List Of Schools Yet To Upload Their Form One Selection In Nemis Per County https://elimupedia.com/list-of-schools-yet-to-upload-their-form-one-selection-in-nemis-per-county.html Thu, 01 Jul 2021 14:09:09 +0000 https://elimupedia.com/?p=3688 Approximately 5,397 schools have not uploaded their 2021 from one selection lists onto the National Education Management Information System, Nemis.

This is as per the latest data from the Education Ministry. The most affected are the Sub County and Private schools whose selection was done manually. The list detailing the school’s name and location indicates that the schools are yet to upload their selection lists onto their Nemis accounts in readiness for the admission exercise in July 2021.

Form one admission dates have been set January Monday 13th to Friday 17th. This will be about one week after the other students would have reported back to school for the new academic year.

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