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