Computerized transcript management system a case study of caritas university

Thesis Overview

<p> </p><p>1.0 INTRODUCTION<br>There were three fundamentally distinct education systems in Nigeria in<br>1990. The indigenous system, Quranic Schools and formal Europeanstyle<br>education institutions. In the rural areas where the majority lived,<br>children learned the skills of farming and other work, as well as the<br>duties of adulthood, from participation in the community, this process<br>was of ten supplemented by age based schools in which groups of<br>young boys were instructed in community responsibilities by mature<br>men. By the 1970s, education experts were asking how the system<br>could be integrated into the more formal schooling of the young, but the<br>question remained unresolved by 1990.<br>Western-style education came to Nigeria with the missionaries in the<br>mid-Nineteenth century. Although the first mission school was founded<br>in 1843 by Methodists, it was the Anglican Church missionary society<br>that pushed forward in the early 1850s to found a chain of missions and<br>schools. Followed quickly in the late 1850s by the Roman Catholics in<br>1887 in what is now Southern Nigeria, an education department was<br>founded that began setting curricum requirement and administered<br>grants to the mission societies. By 1914, when North and South were<br>United into one colony, there were fifty-nine government and ninety-one<br>2<br>mission primary schools in the South; all eleven secondary schools,<br>except for king’s college in Lagos, work run by the missions.<br>The education system focused strongly on examinations. In 1916<br>Fredrick Lugard, first governor of the Unified Colony, set up a school<br>inspectorate. Discipline, building and adequacy of teaching staff were to<br>be inspected, but the most points given to a school’s performance went<br>to the numbers and ranking of it’s examinations results. This stress on<br>examination was still used in 1990 to judge educational results and to<br>obtain qualification for jobs in government and the private sector.<br>As more information is made available in a variety of formats and media<br>and in a variety of locations, the need to manage information/data<br>efficiently becomes more and more critical. Both staff and public users<br>want access to stored information and want to access it more efficiently.<br>It is the university policy to improve both the efficiency and<br>effectiveness of result processing operations (student record/grades),<br>and services through the implementation of A computerized transcript<br>management system.<br>3<br>1.1 Background of the study<br>Caritas university, Amorji Nike, Enugu, is a private university approved<br>by the federal government of Nigeria on December 16, 2004. it was<br>officially opened on January 21, 2005 by the Federal Ministry for<br>Education, Prof. Fabian Osuji, the formal opening was on January 31,<br>2005. The pioneer students of 250 matriculated on May 28, 2005 in<br>beautiful ceremony that attracted dignitaries both church and state. It<br>is the second Catholic University in Nigeria founded by Rev. Fr. Prof.<br>Emmanuel Paul Matthew Edeh CSSP, OFR. Although he founded the<br>school, the proprietor of the University is the congregation of sisters, the<br>Saviour, a religious congregation of Nums founded by him.<br>The vision of Caritas university is to reserve some of our wandering and<br>teaming youth from further slide into academic and moral decay, and<br>development and transformation of our society through sound and<br>adulterated education. It’s mission is to discover, sanctify and apply the<br>knowledge of science, environment central and engineering for human<br>well-being and sound development of man for better society.<br>Caritas university’s goal is to give efficacy to the university’s motto and<br>to it’s philosophy of education. We embrace not only sound education<br>for professional skills and competency in various fields; but also maintain<br>strict discipline. We train the mind, body, soul and spirit in the exercise<br>4<br>of obedience and self control. The students must not only be<br>intellectually and professionally prepared for different tasks and roles in<br>the world, they must also be morally equipped to face the world itself<br>with all its tensions, conflicts, challenges and contradictions, we achieve<br>this with the help of God Almighty who is with us always.<br>The philosophy is to promote sound education for professional skills and<br>competencies in various fields with strict discipline. By discipline the<br>university meant the training of the mind, body and soul and spirit to<br>obedience and self control. Also to prepare the students to be<br>intellectually and professionally sound for different tasks and roles in the<br>word with its tensions, conflict, challenges and contradictions.<br>The university operates faculty system. Presently, the university<br>operates six faculties. Education and Arts, Engineering, Environmental<br>Sciences, Management, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences.<br>1.2 Statement of Problem<br>This project research was conducted exclusively conducted in a caritas<br>university located in a highly populated area that attends to too many<br>students at a time, hence this research was able to track problem such<br>as misplacement of student records, student’s grades, slow and<br>5<br>strenuous accessibility to students report and record, inaccurate record<br>keeping and poor information management within the schools.<br>1.3 Aims and Objectives of the Study<br>The aim of this study is to identify the problems inherent in the existing<br>system of transcript management systems, and to proffer a remedy to<br>the existing problem. The solutions are as follows:<br> Record and reports of students will be easily retrieved with increased<br>data security.<br> There will be reduction in the amount of resources, which in turn will<br>lower the cost of processing of student’s transcripts, since information<br>will be stored in a database with reduced data Redundancy.<br> School personnel can attend to many student without being over<br>worked.<br> There will be reduction in time used in retrieval of student’s files.<br> Reduction in bulkiness of files and record.<br> It will make available the storage room that was used for storage of<br>files.<br>6<br>1.4 Significance of the Study<br>The project research haven’t identify the problem that was existing in<br>the old system of operation , is designed specifically to come up with a<br>more resound and effective system that will not only counteract this<br>problem but also provides a detailed future plan that will give room for<br>more information technological improvement in the transcript sector.<br>1.5 Scope of the Study<br>This research work are limited to providing a digital transcript’s<br>information management system that will handle electronically both<br>students and staff record , to enable easy accessibility and information<br>flow within the university.<br>1.6 Limitation of the Study<br>This research work is limited to providing a more reliable information<br>management system that will handle electronically the record of both<br>student and staff within the university.<br>1.7 Organization of Work<br>This project work was arranged specifically arranged in chapters, hence<br>it follows the order: Chapter One: General Introduction, Chapter Two:<br>7<br>Literature Review, Chapter Three: System Analysis, Chapter Four<br>System Design, and System Implementation, Chapter five: Summary,<br>Conclusion and Recommendation.</p><div><div></div></div><br> <br><p></p>