Oracle Re-engineers African High School Student Administration

Nairobi and 28th May 2007

Following Oracle Consortiums success in the NEPAD e-Schools Demonstration Project where 21 schools in seven African countries were turned into e-Schools , Oracle has led the way by tackling the challenge of student administration, a common issue faced by educators across the continent.  

Oracle has developed a software solution that is simple to use, fast to deploy and free to use and distribute to effectively deal with student administration.  The Oracle School Express (OSE) is a data capturing and reporting tool that enables school administrators to capture student statistics such as registrations, attendance, marks and school fees. 

The solution will run on a normal spec PC enabling the schools and districts to “plug and play” into a larger database at a later stage.

U sing Oracle Application Express, Oracle School Express has been built by some dynamic young staff from Oracle’s South African office. Oracle Application Express is a powerful development tool, designed for rapid development of database-centric web applications. Oracle Application Express turns an Oracle database into an online development service, allowing anyone with a web browser to create reporting and data entry applications quickly without requiring professional programming skills.

“A software solution like this enables educators to efficiently run their schools allowing them to focus on the delivery of education rather than the administrating of education” said Stephane Rousset, Oracle Vice President: Business Operations. With an estimated 150,000 learners and teachers having been engaged over the past 24 months through the NEPAD e-Schools Demonstration Project, Oracle e-Schools vision is to create and implement the best ICT-enabled education system that empowers its users – students, educators and administrators, from primary schools through to private employee training centers – to embrace and exploit the Information Age.

This solution will be made available at no-cost to interested schools in Africa for the year, through the website www.oracle.com/za/e-schools or call Nyasha Mutsekwa on +27 11 266 4000.

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