THE IMPACT OF E-MANAGEMENT ON STUDENT REGISTRATION
(A case study of Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa)
ABSTRACT
This research work talks about the effect of e-management on student registration in Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa. The purpose of this study was to determine how the effect of e-management on student registration can be effective. The sample used for the study was (80) eighty. The instrument used for data collection was the questionnaire. The findings revealed that there was lack of computers machines to enhance adequate learning in the school, and there is no proper and efficient e-management system in the institution. The researcher recommends that there should be adequate machines/computer to enhance effective learning of students in the institution and also there is a need for proper and efficient of e-management system in the institution.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Over the years, the Nigerian Polytechnics have been labeled as behind, and survey often undertaken by national and international organizations variously categorized; Nigeria polytechnics at the bottom end in the world. To this end, scholars have identified some of the causes, one of which is lack of information technology or e-management in the institutions.
Information technology or e-management occupies a pride of place in any institution or nation that is forward looking and result oriented. However, while virile and successful polytechnics or nations have come to realize that their major strength against their counter-part or international arena lies in the quality of their information technology holding, some are yet to come to team with the complexities associated with it.
The challenges posed by a sustainable excellence in the Nigerian Polytechnics are the challenges of e-management essentially of things as internet which is a global set of connection of computers that enables the exchange of data, news and opinions, that is apart from being a communication medium, internet has become a platform for new ways of doing business, a better way for polytechnics or institutions to deliver public services and enabler of lifelong learning or lasting learning from the foregoing, of the Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa has been chosen as a case study regarding the impact of e-management on students’ registration.
The impact of management is crucial enough to dictate the destiny of the Nigerian Polytechnic and indeed joining the community of nations in the much talk about year “2020” by late president Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua.
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Information is having a dramatic impact on both the operations of polytechnic and management of business worldwide. The polytechnics are facing global completion on the markets of both education and research. The competitiveness of Nigerian polytechnics should be strengthened to reach the reading edge to offer more quality in all sectors of higher education. To meet these goals we have to deal with the challenges of combining collaboration and healthy competition between polytechnics.
E-management and e-learning play an important role in the development of both efficiency and effectiveness of the academic world. The internet is the ultimate place to accelerate the flow of relevant information. Aside from being a communication medium, the internet and e-management become a problem for government and institutions to deliver public service and is the en abler of life learning.
Developing countries recognize the need to harness ICTs for development, however, the information technology uptake is largely unequal better information technology and politics that the world enables them top join the digital revolution. As we move to the digital age, one certain critical ingredient for the survivor of nations and institutions is “Information Technology” (IT) and e-management. This means that modern society is essentially a knowledge society characterized by skills and performance and dominated by information technology, and e-management.
John Gage the founder of net day in 1995 at “USA”, also a partner to work on green technologies for global warming argues that the internet is not a thing, a place, a single technology, or a mode of government, it is a protocol, a way of behaving. What is startling the world is the dramatic spread of this agreement, sweeping across all arenas communication and governance.
The internet has become the fastest growing mass medium in only four year, the number of internet users has reached more than 150 million in contrast, it took radio 38 years, television 13 years and the Pc 16 years to reach the same millstone. Despite its explosive growth, however less than 10% of the global population is online.
The internet is an “Innovation common” a shared resources that enables the creation of new and or innovation management. Also, e-monument is meant by using web 2.0 to manage your operation, e-management draws from the convergence of internet, IT and b business technologies. E-management extends the power of the internet to the way business is done, this made the transformation to the information age.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Nigeria is the most populous black nation, but this has been cribbed as a nation without an expanded education system. This is largely due to the fragmental nature and weak infrastructure of the polytechnics. However, the success of any e-management in the polytechnics cannot be achieved without identifying the flops in its operations which are both internal and external within the polytechnic setup.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The following are the basic objective of the study;
- To examine the impact of e-management on student registration with particular reference to Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa.
- To find out an avenue for identifying on how to effectively apply information technology and e-management in an institution.
- To find out the success and failure of online registration with particular reference to Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa.
- To provide solutions that will ultimately lead to the full utilization of e-management in Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
Based on the objectives of the study, the following research questions are outline.
- What is the effect of e-management on student registration?
- What are those ways to effectively apply information technology and e-management in institutions?
- To what extent has the online registration been a success in the institution?
- How can the e-management problems be curbed to enhance its full management in the institution?
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The research project is significant for the following reasons;
When successfully carried out the findings will go to a long way in assisting policy makers to make prompt action in order to hasten the process of e-management on students registration.
The study is also important because it emphasizes and identifies the major constitutions or problems affecting e-management in the institutional backwardness in Nigeria.
The study is also important because it will add to the existing literature on e-management.
1.6 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
Due to time, cost and energy constraint of investigating or research on the topic “The Impact of E-management on Student Registration” it became the scope relative for the researcher to limit or confine the scope of Polytechnic Nasarawa, which is a Federal Polytechnic of Nigeria, Apart from the problems of time management cost and energy, another reason for the limitation and scope of investigation of polytechnic Nasarawa is to bring forth a valid research work that can and will stand the best of time.
1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS
E-management: The use of information technology to improve management of government by streamlining government business processes and improving the flow of information within the government.
Internet: A global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols.
Registration: An official act of registering one’s name in the list of qualified or a certificate attesting to the fact that someone or something has been registered.