Scholarship System

Chapter 1

INTRODUCTION

An institution of higher learning was established in Valenzuela in response to the increasing need of its people for an affordable, reachable and decent tertiary education; thus, Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Valenzuela was established in 2002. Throughout the years, PLV continues its main goal to serve quality education to financially incapable Valenzuelanos with excellent academic performance.
PLV also has its departments that have a part in selecting deserving students that has a will to help himself and his city; and every department must undergo to some improvements or advancement in terms of its systems or management. During the past ten years of PLV, Scholarship Department has this manual system of updating and saving its records which is more prone to data manipulation, unlike in a database system.

Background of the Study
Scholarship Department in PLV provides scholarship to students which lack in financial assistance; it also gives scholarship to students that undergo to some processes and exams (Dr. Pio Scholarship). This department serves as a bridge for deserving students that has been given other scholarship programs thus making it responsible for coordinating to the scholarship providers. Its main job is to make sure that students can easily access their scholarship providers and pass the required documents to them, making it convenient for students. Updating and storing of important documents are manually done.
System Overview The system prompts the user for the system username and password. Username and password are both case sensitive, excess or lack of characters in either of the two is prohibited. Once the user login successfully, user can choose and load a specific scholarship program; to update or add a certain student to the selected scholarship program, the user just need to fill-out the specific information needed and then add it in the database. The user can save, edit or alter a specific field of information. Finally, the system gives the user an option to print the transaction that has been done.