Thesis Abstract

Thesis Overview

INTRODUCTION

1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Education is an indispensable system on which the life of everyone is built and as well stimulates the entire life application. It could be referred to as a process designed for the acquisition and dissemination of skills and knowledge to the posterity of the nation. The identified system tends to be implemented in diverse dimensions basically in schools.

For the past ten years, it has been discovered that schools are not what they were as attributed to the wide ranging changes which have occurred and brought new pressure associated with increased size. On the account of this, an increasing complexity of organization has been instigated so that stresses and anxieties of choice have been added to those of dimension.

The competent educational administration constitute the intensity of education and its impediments mount a disturbing diffusion and obscuring of purpose and all these changes concede with a major recruiting of curriculum and methodology. In most cases, the manual method adopted in monitoring some school activities undermine other roles like enrolment of students, computation of student’s result, examination supervision and making of examination scripts.

With regard to the discrepancies created by the manual techniques of school administration, the school management board should devise a competitive means of achieving their set objective in a computerized educational administrative information system.

1.2 AIMS/OBJECTIVES

The basic aim of the study is to provide a lasting solution to the problems emanated from the manual means of school management. They are as follows:

– To produce a system which tends to increase the predictability of the organization by assessing critically its obsolescence in relation to fresh challenges.

– To produce a reliable system that would coordinate most of the school activities.

– To produce a flexible and comprehensive system that would meet up with the future development in the school.

– To design and develop a computerized system that would handle the execution of school activities most especially post-primary schools so as to liquidate all the problems identified with the existing system.