Potential Solution To A Disruption In The Tertiary Education Industry

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A potential solution to a disruption in the tertiary education industry
Tertiary education is formal learning post-secondary education. According to the world bank, tertiary education comprises colleges and universities. The question that everyone has asked themselves at some point is whether or not tertiary education is a business. Like any other business, tertiary education involves the exchange of services for money. Although the government may sometimes subsidize the amount of money required for tertiary education, the learners are expected to raise the money for the studies. This money collected is used to run the institutions, pay non-teaching staff and also help in repairs and maintenance within the institutions.
Because tertiary education institutions are businesses, it is essential to put in place strategies to help them stay operational. The institutions must be ready for any changes that may affect their operations. By being ready, the institutions must be faced to face disruptions and remain operational. One of such a disruption that a college or university is likely to face is a breakdown of Information Technology systems. IT systems are prone to wear and tear and with time, these systems may break down or fail to operate. In a university setting, 95% of all the operations in the university are heavily dependent on IT from fee payment to performance evaluation, staffing and also the contracts being undertaken by the institution.
One such case where an IT system goes down is a fire in the server room. The server room is the brain of any network, and it controls all activities that take place in the network. When a server room is destroyed by fire, all the activities such as resource sharing, provision of internet access, DNS mapping, among other services offered by the DHCP will be impaired. Also, all students who study through the university's online platform will be denied access to their accounts and their studies will be interrupted. These and many more problems such as communication breakdown are the likely effects of the server room going down. What happens when the server room goes down?
When a server room goes down, it is highly probable that the campus will experience losses. In a case where a server was providing connectivity for the employees, server failure translates to employees being paid for doing nothing. Online learners may be interrupted in their studies, and online instructors may be inconvenienced. Therefore, the primary goal when a server goes down is to get the server back up. The backups come in handy in this process. All the necessary activities should be back in operation using the backups.
After the system is back online, the campus should evaluate the amount of damage done. Calculations should be made in order to determine the amount of loss that the server failure has brought. Also, the campus will need to out in place new machinery and incase the network administrator, and his team cannot handle the whole recovery process, personnel with adequate know-how should be out-sourced. In the process of getting the server back at full operation, conservative actions are taken with the required urgency. These actions a...