Student Tracking System; Look at the children's school achievement home

Mangaluru: From this year on, parents of students studying in government schools can get information on their children’s educational achievements, scholarships and other information online. The education department has provided this opportunity at the tips of the parent’s fingers. Last year, this facility was introduced on an experimental basis.

Student Tracking System is the name of this facility where all the information of as student has to be uploaded into the website. Every student will be given a unique STS code. Using this code, the parents can login into the website and view all the information about their children.

STS provide two options on site. School registration is to upload the information about the student and user registration for the parents to view the progress of their children. The purpose of the website in relation to primary education includes bring in transparency, preventing loss of information-explanation, improving efficiency, making rules effective, has been informed on the website itself. Admission application forms, attendance card, progress card, transfer certificate forms and others are available for download on the website.

Previously what used to happen?

There is free education facility from 1^st std to 5^th std throughout the state. During the time of admission, the child’s birthday is noted down as per its parent’s announcement. The children who used to take admission at schools in Uttar Karnataka, would come to Karavali and get admitted at schools here. This trend doubled the number of students. Since the distribution of uniform and text books was based on the number of students in a school, the government ended up distributing in excess, and this was also being observed.

But, since last year, the child was admitted into the school only after its Adhaar card and birth certificate was verified. The information is then uploaded into the website. If the admission off a child has already taken place at another school, its information cannot be uploaded onto the website. Thus it is possible to maintain the documents of the student at only one school.

The documents of the children of day wage workers will be transferred to the new school online. Also, the scope of showing the false number of students at school with aim to save a school even though the school is empty has been removed. Henceforth it will be easy for the parents to view their children’s progress and other information online, as all the information of the student including its marks in all the exams in the academic year and its documents will be uploaded here.

The department should wake up

Though the Student Tracking System is a welcomed action, it has to depend on the education department’s technology pace. This is so because, on the homepage of the STS website, Siddaramiah still remains as the chief minister. Though, a few days have passed by since the formation of the new government, the department has failed to change this. Other than this, the text books and uniforms had to be distributed under the STS (Student achievement tracking system) this year. But due to some technical difficulties, a few books and uniforms have not been fulfilled.