Challenges in education management information system in develpoing countries

Education Management Information System not only means to gather statistics from the schools by following people, models, methods, procedures, processes, rules and regulations but it actually also relates with the emerging computer technology to get all mentioned functions work together to provide comprehensive, integrated, relevant, reliable, unambiguous and timely data to education leaders, decisions makers, planners and managers to perform their responsibilities efficiently to achieve the set goals. Computer technology provides technical support to the education management information systems by providing right people with right information at the right time to make best decisions, planning and monitoring in the best interest of organization. In this paper challenges to EMIS in NWFP are discussed by a study of the existing system.