Emeka Aginam
31 December 2008
For Kwara State College of Education, Oro, the first College of Education established in Kwara State, it is goodby to laborious registration as the school has unveiled state-of-the-art Student Record Management System (SRMS), a complete ICT kit that allows the school to manage its student administration in an efficient and effective manner.
The school's SRMS is the most dynamic solution yet in any higher institution in Nigeria as it forms part of the entire student administration.
Developed by Core Business Technologies Limited, indigenous solutions-oriented and dynamic IT service provider, the system helps in student recruitment and admissions systems and accommodation.
The system comes complete with admission process for remedial, undergraduate and post-graduate programmes with modules to accept scanned photos and signatures of students.
It also processes on-line application, on_-ine students admission checking, admission clearance (both off and online) and e - Payment and students should be able to register for past sessions, that is, a 400 level student in 2008/2009 Session should be able to enter registration information from his100 level which would be 2005/2006.
Reacting to this development, Edward Essien, chief executive officer, Core Business Technologies, said that portal also has provision for change of course/programme on-line (if a student is requested to withdraw from a course, and is eligible to change to another course/programme).
According to Essien, the Kwara State College of Education' SRMS has modules for printing necessary completed forms for signatures, assignment of students' matriculation number (off/online), issuance of I.D. cards for students - (to have a feature for downloading required data from the data base, off line, for input into an ID Card issuing program) and generation of list of registered students course by course.
"It is also captures examination scores course by course, computation of good standing results which varies from school to school.The portal is designed to allow for permission protected changes by school and council and students' score sheet to be seen only by individual students (off/on line).
Provision for uploading list of students to withdraw from the college as a result of not being in good standing or disciplinary case, final year screening clearance module (offline), computation of final year result (off line)" he said.
He said that the portal, issuance of transcripts, sessional and semester results. (Must have a security system), generation of NYSC mobilization lists, full e_learning (that is on_line lecture notes, assignment etc) module, on/off line e_library, hostel allocation, time table and course allocation for lectures and examinations.
He said that portal solution has: query features, report building features, data export features to Excel, Access and SQL, permission setting features, correct date formatting since calculations are regularly performed on data, historical records of all updates should be kept, backing_up /archiving modules for and acceptance of resumes'
The Kwara State College of Education was established in 1987 and is responsible for the training and development of a number of teachers and educational administrators in Kwara, Nigeria and beyond.
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