TPS Down! No OAU Transcript
In
the last four weeks thereabouts, it’s been OAU alumni reaching out to know what
is wrong with OAU’s Transcript Processing System (TPS; with the web
tps.oauife.edu.ng)? Well, we have answers; PEC always have answers. Not only
the answers you will get here, you will also get the insidest of the inside
information. Let me start from here, when the transcript processing website is
down, just know it’s not only the website, it’s the whole transcript processing
components: the web, the software, the database, the people of the Transcript
Unit… everything. This is because everything about transcript production in OAU
has been largely digitalized since the introduction of TPS after the COVID-19
experiences, and processing transcripts manually now is almost out of what OAU does.
That’s an achievement, yes?
The
problem now is, these things are installed based on nepotism and favoritism in OAU;
it shouldn’t shock you if you heard it’s one person in charge of engineering
the whole Transcript Processing System (allegedly o), and if anything goes
wrong with the system, that is the only person who can fix it (allegedly o). If
this is truly the case, you shouldn’t think it as a monopoly of the transcript
processing system, it’s not that, it’s more than that when it has to do with
tech products; because if I was the engineer in charge of a whole school’s transcript
processing system, I would constantly tamper with something so that I would
always be called upon. I would also do everything to make sure no other person
is able to work on the system beyond secondary functions. Yes, this has been
happening with the system (allegedly o), and it can only happen if backed by nepotism.
This
is almost similar to what happened during the era of ETX (a private company)
handling OAU’s transcript application processes (a whole OAU). One would ask, how
did ETX get the OAU transcript application gig and held it for many years of
not getting most of the applications delivered? They even got an office at the
school’s administrative building. They over-charged the school’s alumni for
each transcript application. They got double-paid for one order, and didn’t deliver
most of the orders they got paid for. They handled OAU’s transcript for years,
and never got probed till date for all the money they collected and not
deliver. These would only happen if there is a force within the management
making it possible (allegedly o). That’s nepotism for you.
TPS has been down for up to four weeks now; no transcript can be sent (even if it gets processed manually), the engineer is either around to fix it or not around yet, or their demands are not being met yet, so they are taking their time stalling. But government and the school have been unable to make money from transcript applications for the four weeks the system has been down for. Transcripts already applied for are not getting sent, thereby making alumni lose opportunities and money. This is what happens when a system is built on “na our pikin…” and not on efficiency and effectiveness. No matter what the problem is with TPS, if it was built and handled by an accountable body, it would have been fixed in a matter of 24 hours. The reason why it has taken up to four weeks and it’s still not working is because some nepotistic nonsense is going on underneath. If TPS is not back up and functional till the end of November, that is a probable cause enough for alumni to stage an outcry. Because by December (being the months of high international admissions, employments, promotions and all), if transcripts are not getting processed and sent, a lot of admissions would be lost, a lot of jobs and promotions would be lost; I believe no alumni would want this.
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