TEMPUS Joint European Project 14461-1999
"NEW EDUCATIONAL TOOLS"
Tempus Joint European Project ANNEX II/4
Contract No: UM_JEP-14461-1999 Revised Budget and Activity Plan
The discussion and commercial and academic presentations at the Seminar on Models of Student Management Information Systems for Polish Universities showed that:
- Appropriate management structures supported by effective management information systems are needed. The partners in this project have already proceeded with major administration reforms. Most of them undertook different reforms in the area of management structures and introduction of IT tools for information management. Most Polish universities have computerised databases for student registration and performance, but only at the faculty level. Therefore, each university most immediate need is to integrate these systems into one university-wide date base. Another challenge faced by Polish universities is the introduction of a new admission procedure. Traditionally, a student is admitted to a faculty, which has its own admission procedure, usually lengthy and inefficient, and this makes a subsequent flow of students between the faculties very difficult.
No Polish software company is able to provide the consortium with the software needed for the national level university-wide date base with functionality requested for Student Management Information System, Virtual Educational Information Network and Centralised Student Admission.
After the seminar, Steering Group, supported by the expertise provided by international guests of the seminar, decided that software needed would be designed and developed by the Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics at Warsaw University. The Steering Group believes that 36000 Euro planned for purchasing software applications in the second year of the project should be allocated. The amount of 7000 EURO planned for buying a SCONTRON binary scanner should be allocated as well, since only US made SCANTRON scanners are available on the European market. Therefore it would be much better to spend the amount for 43 000 (36000 + 7000) EURO on
16 servers for Polish universities (consortium members) introducing the University Study Management System (USMS) - 41000 EURO
special software needed for integrating the USMS with the system for finance at Adam Mickiewicz University - 2000 EURO.
The Steering Group would be grateful for prompt approving of this allocation.
Other problems are reported in Part III, Annex II/6.
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