An Online Center Management System for Vocational Training Centre (VTC)

Abstract

ABSTRACT Vocational Training Centre is a semi-government technical training institute that comes directly under the Ministry of Youth affairs. It consists of five main departments providing various training programs from certificate to diploma level. The institution provides training for more than 500 students per year. The current Center Management System. That is handling all staff and student related functionalities from recruitment to retirement and enrolment to exams is done through a paper based manual system. A legacy system developed in C language is used to manage employee attendance and leave. Careful observation proved that the manual system is not productive due to reasons such as overhead in cross checking information, producing management reports, maintenance of records and etc. The scope of this project is to provide a web based Center Management System that can automate employee details (personal, educational, professional, etc.) management, the management of employee attendance, leave management, produce information for salary processing and employee training and appraisal and all processers through student enrolling to exams. The system analysis and design followed a fully Object Oriented Development Approach along with some Agile/Extreme Programming best practices. The Implementation architecture falls into the popular three layered architecture. It adheres to Factory Pattern identified in the Design stage as the core of its implementation. Currently, the system is at the design/development iterations. This system has been developed in Microsoft® Windows environment using Apache, PHP and MySQL three open source technologies that are often combined to develop web applications.