Dinesh Kamath's news item 'E-way methods adopted in city school' that was published in Newsband

E-way methods adopted in city school

By Dinesh Kamath

VASHI: Father Agnel's Multipurpose School, (English Medium), Vashi, has gone online for nursery level admissions. This has given relief to many parents. These parents do not have to make repeated rounds or queue up in the wee hours of morning to procure and submit application forms.

The state board schools have begun the admission process for the nursery level. The management of Father Agnel’s school has done proper planning to make this online admission process a big success. This time they don’t want the rush and inconvenience caused to parents. They have streamlined the registration process. They indeed have set an example to other schools by introducing online submission of applications. The parents this year will not be given the Hard copies of application forms.

Instructions about online registration are uploaded on the school's website, www.agnelhamara.net. All the queries of the parents relating to the admission of their wards are answered. After filling the form online, the parents are given a time slot and a date on which they have to come with their child for an interactive session and for payment of the admission forms.

This online procedure has proved to be very helpful to the parents. Online admission is undoubtedly a good move. It won’t be surprising if very soon the other schools also start adopting the same system of admission. In fact many schools are already impressed by this new concept. Managements affiliated to the board have expressed their wish to go online from the next academic year. New suggestions to improve this system still further are invited.

It is good to see a school in Navi Mumbai going e-way. In fact, in a school at Delhi, the parents are able to keep a tab on their children's activities in school — right from attendance to monitoring their academic and even extra-curricular performances since the schools have tie-up with companies which provide parents access to such information via websites or regular emails.

There are quite many schools, both big and small, providing these facilities called web portal. Teachers can now directly communicate with students through the portal. Some schools have the technology that provides their staff with the facility to monitor their salary, holidays etc. Apart from this, the portal uploads more than 9,000 tutorials onto the website for the benefit of those students who were absent from school due to unavoidable reasons.  They also make the lessons taught in school easier to enable the weaker students to grasp them.

This is a system that offers automation on basic operational processes which is easy to implement and can be followed by all parties involved.

Thus one shouldn’t be surprised if very soon we find some schools in Navi Mumbai too adopting the same advanced system of education.