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SRCC's Prisca Kanja guides Assistant Minister Kilemi Mwiria to use IMIS. Looking on are CUEA's Vice Chancellor Prof John Mavirii (right), and Deputy Vice Chancellor Francis Muchoki (second right). CUEA's IT Manager Fr John Kyaze (third left), and the Project Manager Peter Sigadah (second left) follow the proceedings on a projected screen |
The Strathmore Research and Consultancy Centre (SRCC) has implemented an Integrated Management of Information System (IMIS) at the Catholic University of East Africa (CUEA). The system is similar to the one running at Strathmore. It was launched at CUEA on Wednesday, 17th September by Dr Kilemi Mwiria, Assistant Minister for Higher Education.
IMIS is an integrated suite of powerful modules that handles the mission critical information needs of higher educational institutions. It provides support for university's core processes by ensuring effective and integrated academic data management relating to academic activities and financial management.
The system will handle all activities from student application to generation of graduation list at the end of courses. It will thus ensure efficient processing of all activities relating to the student's life cycle.
The benefits of the system include greater management's control over processes in all academic areas, improved capability to maintain customer focused quality standards, and better performance in management of student debtors.
With the system, students can register remotely online. The academic component includes course and exam management modules. The course management module can handle routine tasks, course exemptions, and department changes by students. It also manages credit transfers from one course to another. It also manages deferments.
The exam management module manages grades from the point of entry to approval stage, creates grade lists for students who meet some criteria, and manages production and printing of transcripts and certificates on request or in batch.
The financial planning component manages different fees tariffs comprehensively, it organizes fees based on subject costing, it has a scheme for managing scholarships, discounts, and bursaries; allows for installment payments. It also allows students to register and pay for specific papers and produces class lists for the papers and invoices for the students.
The academic planning module helps in management of classroom allocation. The implementation of the project began in August 2007 and was completed on schedule.
See also:
http://www.computerworld.co.ke/articles/2008/06/23/university-rwanda-adopts-it-kenyan-school
http://www.computerworld.co.ke/articles/2008/10/10/university-save-costs-with-new-management-system
http://www.bdafrica.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10550&Itemid=5847
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