A new way to learn

WITHIN THE confines of his cabin, with a stack of "Microsoft official files" on his right, 22-year-old Fareed Ahmed claims that he can revolutionise the education system.

As CEO of Internet Business Factory India, he says he has "conceptualised, strategised and developed" a solution to this which goes by the name Student Informative System (SIS).

Perhaps it may be a bit hard to take him seriously, initially, but scanning the note on his profile, and then, later, watching him demonstrate SIS, makes one realise that it can be a difficult chioce to make - focus on him or SIS?

But modest he his and it is onto SIS.

The software package is an electronic platform that enables "efficient management of a student" by integrating the pupil, the teacher, the parent and the management.

Offered a variety of choices, each group can connect with the other ... It is just log on and select.

For instance, the management can have access to and information about staff, parent and student profiles, admission procedures, timetables, examination schedules, attendance and homework, to name a few.

Teachers can have access to some of these options listed, but there are choices to post daily lesson plans and chart their course of teaching.

Students and parents too have attractive options. A parent can monitor his ward's progress everyday.

The package, says Fareed, is customisable and has a specialised module to evaluate a student's performance called "Analyse".

Further, SIS can be adopted at the tertiary level of education.

Reactions to the package, especially in North India have ranged from "the positive" to "wanting to copy it".

Available in English, moves are on to use other languages too, he says, finally revealing that contracts are close to being clinched with school and college managements.

MURALI N. KRISHNASWAMY

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