By Polly Raymond, 11 January 1999 13:57
NEWS The UK University admissions body UCAS has confirmed today that its application process is set to go electronic by late spring this year. The Electronic Application System 2000 (Easy) software was developed in-house and proved highly successful in a two year pilot. According to a UCAS spokesman it is likely to make paper application obsolete within a few years. Around 1000 schools and local education authorities are now running the software which can be obtained free of charge from UCAS. Entries are sent to central office either by disk or over the Internet. The spokesman added that in busy weeks Easy had slashed the process time from three weeks to three days. UCAS expects to ship the system across the UK and eventually to other countries and claims it will ease applications from foreign students who will be able to submit entries via the UCAS Web site.
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