Staff Reporter

Government has introduced a database profiling learners, the Harare Post has learnt.

A source privy to the development indicated that the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education Communications and Advocacy Director, Taungana Ndoro revealed that the initiative would assist in the management of the learners by identifying each pupil’s talent at an early age.

According to the source, Ndoro advised that information collected on individual learners would be fed into the Education Management Information System database. It would then be updated throughout their infant, junior and Secondary education years hence the need to collect accurate data.

Ndoro added that the initiative was an assessment mechanism for developmental domains in young children. The database is for individual child and parent’s benefit through child-centered approaches, referrals and monitoring.

The source added that some schools had already launched the initiative.

“A local school in Bulawayo has since notified parents and guardians to partake in this exercise dubbed, ‘Learning Support Services Client Profile Database (LSSCPD).’ The school indicated that the exercise would assist learners to acquire different skills according to their intellectual and mental capabilities. A set of screening and profiling tools have since been availed for use in schools,” said the source.

Learning Support Services Client Profile Database is in line with Education 5.0 which is a five-mission model of teaching, research, community service, innovation and industrialization, established to move the nation forward towards an innovation-led and knowledge-driven economy.