Unified information system of higher education institutions

Abstract

The presentation deals with reviewing and of current Lithuanian higher education and research information system, its-future organisational structure and system re-engineering steps. Aiming at faster adapting to rapidly changing external environment higher education institutions are trying to create and implement institution resource planning and management components: Financials, Campus Management, Human Resources Management, Records Management etc. Ministry of Education and Science expresses initiative to influence these processes, because it need high quality and fast statistic information from HE institutions. In many cases information received from different institutions is incomplete, not accurate, sometimes delayed. A team of information technologies specialists, representatives from different institutions, undertook research of current situation, analyzed existing institutional information systems, suggested conceptions, developed specifications for unified Lithuanian HE &R Information System.