CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Integration of documentation and knowledge based computerized service in information system is a tremendous means to help management in their daily practices and to improve its quality (Ahaiwe, 2007). Academic planning unit of any tertiary institution provides a range of management and planning support to facilitate informed decision-making, planning and policy formulation, and overall strategic development of the university (University of Ibadan, 2018). The role of the office is to provide timely and accurate information to the University for planning and managerial decision (Howell, 2013).
With the national dividing financial budgetary allocation, nature academic planning is essential for proper channeling of our limited resources provisions for lecture rooms and office spaces seen to have been neglected for the previous years. Academics have been in chaos; student admission has been on the increase without regard to available infrastructure.
With the national division of financial budgetary allocation, nature of academic planning is essential for proper channeling of our limited resources for provisions of lecture rooms, office spaces, staff recruitment and entitlements are seen to have been neglected for the previous years. Academics have been in chaos; students’ admission has been on increase with no corresponding infrastructure. According to Ahaiwe, (2007) available classroom spaces have insufficient desks, table and chairs. Partially due to over blown student population, examinations are difficult to conduct and examination script are not yet computerized only in first year and second years. Library facilities need to be coordinated, with all these, a good academic planning which would encompass short, median and long term planning is necessary in the institution. For this purpose, an academic planning unit is one word for proper articulation of academic activities. Hence, development of an integrated software for academic planning unit would fast track the actualization and realization of the vision and mission of tertiary education in terms of managerial proficiency, easy and simple record and retrieval information , efficient and effective teaching and learning and overall performance of the students.Vossen, (2017) rightly declared that the manual methods being employed suffer a number of setbacks; they make the process to be time consuming and prone to error.