The Higher Education Management Information Section was established in 2005 which was further converted to Regular Budget in 16/3/2006. The purpose of the Cell was to automate all the manual process and business of the Department for high info motion among sections/offices of the Department and hence for timely decision making by the Administration.

The aim of the Cell is to:

1. To bring excellence in education by incorporating state of the art technologies forb automating functions of the Department at all levels. 
2. Assembles, process, stores, Retrieves, evaluates and disseminates information of Higher 
3. Education for decision making and customize reports generation.
4. Enable administration to timely take decision by providing up to date information. 
5. Minimizes information overload by changing larger amount of data into summarized form.
6. Bring Coordination by integrating specialized activities among offices/sections.
7. To enable Department to report information of HR and Colleges for day to day activities like Transfer, Posting, Promotion employing staff, admission, budgets, Planning etc.
8. To support all technology and computer related activities in the Department.

In this regard the following the following steps have been taken:

1. MIS Module which stores information regarding Staff and College across the province. Different sections/offices generate reports as per their requirements. 
2. Website of Higher Education Department is live.
3. Online Admission System is developed and will be tested this year on pilot basis in Peshawar. Similarly web portal for all colleges is also completed.
4. File Paper tracking System is completed.
5. Operate the Departmental Monitoring System.
6. Execute ADP Project to strengthen the Cell.
7. Monitoring of Colleges for which hiring is in progress on district level.
8. For Monitoring purpose module is in progress and GIS tracking.
9. College Management Information module is also under consideration for which letter has been sent to DoIT. 
10. Purchase of Hardware and equipment’s for the Cell.