THE NEED TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN THE OVERRATED PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND OUR INDIGENOUS UNITY SCHOOLS

By Olamide Olatunji

Over the years, private schools have been tremendously rated over our prestigious indigenous unity schools. Research has shown that the gap between these overrated private schools and our unity schools is undoubted, with their innovative activities and advancement in “Information Technology”. This had been a major obstacle impeding unity schools from getting to the top in several educational ratings years back. The restriction to this glory saddens the students and ex-students of unity schools, despite the huge believe and a glaring fact that unity schools are far better than these private schools academically based on their phenomenal astounding performances in several educational competitions across the nation.

However, the need to bridge the gap between private schools and unity schools has been a vast and gigantic task to some group of old students of unity schools on the platform of IT, which led them to come together as an IT body under the Corporate Affairs Commission (C.A.C) registered name Krystal Digital Network Solutions Ltd.  Krystal Digital as an IT Solution company handles all kinds of Software Applications, Web Designing, and also caters for all kind of IT problems. Sequel to the reason why Krystal Digital was formed, and with the help of their exposure on IT around the world, an educational initiative called “School Information Management System” (SIMS) was eminently pioneered by Krystal Digital, inclusive with a standard upgraded  website in which the School Information Management system was integrated.

Krystal’s initiative has come to proffer solution to the IT challenges of unity schools, being in line with the introduction of ICT to these schools, simultaneously bridging the gap between private schools and our unity schools.

Currently, a large number of unity schools across the nation have adopted this educational initiative, in which their administrative/students’ records are accumulated into a user friendly database platform. SIMS has advantages; eases teachers’ stress and gives them the privilege to be IT inclined, inputting their scores and computing grades, and uploading assignments online in the comfort of their various homes. It also engages parents in monitoring their ward’s progress effectively, and getting recent updates of activities in the school with the upgraded website offered with no cost, in the cause of meeting up with the aim of giving back to our dearest unity schools.

In the nation’s education sector today, it cuts across beyond the shadow of doubt, that unity schools now top several recent educational ratings, seen as ICT inclined schools, and also meeting up with the moving trend with the help of their newly imbibed ICT initiative powered by Krystal Digital.

 The undisputed spectacular product/services that Krystal renders now gives the brand “Krystal” a full recognition in the ministry of education as one of the corporate bodies adding to the growth of the educational sector in the federation. At Krystal Digital, one of the major tasks is to rescue unity schools from the archaic, traditional paper-method of managing schools, thereby bridging the gap between the private schools and our unity schools, currently extending it to over fifty unity schools, and striving to accommodate many more under the umbrella where solutions are fetched.