The Centrally Hosted MIS Project Background

Over the last few years, school management information and administration systems (MIS) have grown enormously.  Once the preserve of the school office they now permeate most aspects of school life.  They now support work in the classroom as well as the office and the once small single-user database has grown to a multi-user, multi-functional system that has become critical to the smooth running of a school.

As a direct consequence, systems have become more complex to manage diverting significant resources in the school.  Work is often done by staff with no formal training in supporting such systems. Central Hosting is intended to take away the technical management of the system and as a result to free up staff time and resources to making better use of the data and management information it contains.

The primary pilot project

This is primarily about the possibilities of removing the burden of technically supporting administrative systems (including SIMS) in schools and making MIS more widely available more simply. The approach is also intended to support anytime, anywhere access for staff.

The extended pilot project

The initial pilot project showed that the systems commonly in use in schools could be made to work satisfactorily.  The next stage was to extend the pilot to a larger number of schools and different types of school.  By September we hope to have three secondary schools, a special school and a nursery school together with a larger group of about 25 primary schools.   This phase of the pilot will run throughout the Autumn term.

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