1.1 INTRODUCTION

There were three fundamentally distinct education systems in Nigeria

in 1990: the indigenous system Quranic schools and formal

European-style 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 often 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 curricula

requirements 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 were run by the missions.

The education system focused strongly on examinations. In 1916

Frederick Lugard first governor of the unified colony set up a school

inspectorate. Discipline buildings and adequacy of teaching staff

were to be inspected but the most points given to a school's

performance went to the numbers and rankings of its examination

results. This stress on examinations was still used in 1990 to judge

educational results and to obtain qualifications 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 course registration and result

processing operations and services through the implementation of an

integrated automated database System.

1.2 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

Caritas University is made up of four (4) faculties namely:

1. Engineering with the following departments: Computer

Mechanical Chemical and Electrical and Electronics

Engineering.

2. Environmental with the following departments: Architecture

Urban & Regional Planning and Estate Management.

3. Management and Social Sciences with the following

departments: Accountancy Economics Business

Administration Public Administration Political Science

Industrial Relation and Personnel Management Mass

Communication Marketing Banking and Finance.

4. Natural Sciences with the following departments: Biochemistry

Computer Science & Information Technology Industrial

Chemistry Mathematics & Statistics and Microbiology &

Biotechnology.

In Universities like Caritas the need for automated method of keeping

data has been there. Software so many of them has been developed

and even sold worldwide to solve this problem. I have analyzed these

software and discovered that very many of them are inefficient.

Students as well has researched and developed their own software but

they could not give or develop error free software that will assist in

result generation automated course registration to keep or build a

database of results in the University that will facilitate students’

transcripts.

This problem has been delaying or delayed the results of graduating or

graduated students that has made some of them not to go for youth

service when they ought to or ought to have gone and has even made

some not to have gone at all. To bridge this gap or solve this problem

there is a need to develop software that is accurate error free as the

problem has imposed so much stress on both exams and record and

the management in Universities.

1.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

Database of information is vital in today’s education with respect

to course registration and examination result processing. This has

become a very vital issue as students spend so much time trying

to know the number of credit units for each semester. This

problem has lead to time wasting inaccuracy of results and even

open to fraud. Cases of missing results have been recorded

thereby making examination processing more difficult and

untimely.

1.4 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The objectives of this study are to:

1. Provide a reliable solution to result processing that is corruption

free.

2. Ensure that normal credit load in line with the school is

maintained.

3. Provide a software that will generate result that is accurate

timely and error free.

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The project work will help in a good number of ways to ease the delay

in manual examination processing. The software developed will help

schools management to achieve efficient information management

system. There are many other advantages and some of them are listed

below.

1. It saves time during examination processing

2. Database for course registration and examination result is

maintained

3. References are very fast and delays can be avoided.

4. It allows easy access to stored information.

5. Help in reducing the costs such as labor inventory and

stationary.

6. Generation of accurate results/information on transactions is

sure.

1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This research work will concentrate on course registration and

examination processing system using Caritas University (Computer

Science & Information Technology Department) as a case study. The

system developed will only cover registration of students course

registration and result processing.

1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS/VARIABLES

Information System: It is a collection of procedures people

Instructions and equipment to produce

information in a useful form.

Technology: It is study of techniques or process of mobilizing

Resource (such as information) for accomplishing

objectives that benefits man and his environment.

Information: Information can be defined as the process of gathering

transmitting receiving storing and retrieving data or

several items put together to convey a desired message.

Computer Network: Computer Network is a system that connects

two or more computers together using a

communication link.

Databases: A systematically arranged collection of computer data

structured so that it can be automatically retrieved or

manipulated. It is also called databank.

File Transfer: Any kind of computer file can be sent via the Internet

from one Internet user to another. Table of accounts

on spreadsheets design by a graphic artists music

sound files etc can all be exchanged in this way.