There has been an astronomical increase in the number of educational institutions established especially in the last four decades all over the world. This development has brought education to the doorstep of people. Consequently it has increased knowledge and helped produce a population of enlightened citizens who can easily abide by the rules of civilized society and contribute meaningfully to the process of democratic governance. Most of the newly established educational institutions however, are using the old conventional techniques for managing their assets especially hostel facilities. This old techniques with its inherent limitations have impacted negatively on the overall organisational efficiency of this educational systems. In this paper, the development of an automated hostel accommodation management system is proposed. The codes for the automated system were developed using Visual Basic and Microsoft Access was used to develop the underlying database. It also has in-built authentication algorithm for preventing unauthorised access. The developed system overcomes the drawbacks of traditional methods of hostel management; it is more user-friendly, graphical-user-interface oriented, reliable, efficient and secured with access control mechanisms.
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