March 28, 2024

Troubled, and expensive, student enrollment software will soon be replaced

This is the last year for the troubled $ 100-million dollar provincial enrollment software known as BCeSIS.

 The Ministry of Edcuation says they will likely seek a BCeSIS replacement this fall when they put the contract out for tender.

 Vancouver School Board chair Patti Bacchus “It can’t come too soon BCeSIS has really been a colossal  headache and expense for school districts and we will be happy to see something as long as it is something that actually works and is more useful for schools than BCeSIS”

 Bacchus says when it comes to replacing BCeSIS this time teachers need to be consulted.

  “It is very important that the people who will be using it and that is primarily teachers, councillors, and school administrators have input in what will work and what will not work so we don’t end up with another problem like BCeSIS has been.”

 The province decided to scrap the software last September after a report recomended it be replaced.

 The move came after BCesSIS crashed province wide at the beginning of the 2010 school year.

 The BC government pegs the BCeSIS price tag at $ 89 million.

 But the NDP say the actual figure is $ 100-million or more.

CKNW Vancouver News

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