Use of ICT for Administration and Management: Case Study, EMU

Information Communication Technology is the most vital specialty in both working and educational environment, and newer drifts in higher educational researches are finding results regarding the usefulness of ICT towards facilitating education and work conditions for intending users. The major significance of this study is centered on the evaluation of ICT uses for the administration and management of educational institution; using EMU as a case study. This study investigated on the major importance of ICT to staff of EMU and also conducted a test to determine if significant difference exists between items and data variables such as age, gender, years of experience, usage of ICT tools, educational level, etc,. Information was collected from respondents via the use of questionnaire. 72 EMU staff was examined according to the various demographics of the study. Critical examination was made of the total data collected for this study by adopting ANOVA and t-test, frequency and percentages. Findings of this study shows that majority of the EMU staff agreed and strongly agree that ICT can be of pertinent help to them and also that ICT helps their work move smoothly and properly and in a timely manner. The study also goes to prove that male and female of EMU staff have different notions on their opinion on been comfortable when using ICT tools in their daily job. But more than 90% of the staff shows that no significant difference exist between male and female staff of EMU on their various uses of ICT for managing and administering education. Crosstabulations was further done on several significant points of the t-test and ANOVA test of the study, such as on gender and their comfortability when using ICT tools in their daily jobs, results showed that male held the larger paercentage as to the agrrement to the subject matter than their female counterparts. Keywords: Administration, Management Information and Communicatıon Technology