KPIT Board in collaboration with Higher Education, Archives & Libraries Department Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa initiated the system of Online Admission to Government Colleges (OCAS) under the project of ICT Facilitation. The system enables and provides easy interface to the students of KPK and enforce transparency in the process of admission. Moreover, the aim of (OCAS) is to provide easy, convenient, efficient and reliable access to students for admissions in the government colleges for higher level of education. The solution is based upon a collaborative relationship between Higher Education, Archives & Libraries Department Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Technology Board.
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Objectives
- To reduce the number of physical visits that students and their parents need to make to colleges during the admissions process
- To introduce transparent admission process
- To reduce application compilation and merit list preparation time considerably by pushing the labor-intensive and error-prone, back-office data-entry activities to the end-users themselves.
- To save enormous amount of travel time and expense during the admissions process
Benefits/Outcomes
- Convenience: Helps save time and money, fewer physical visits to colleges
- Accuracy: Push data-entry out to the user! Save on data-entry costs and errors
- Standardization: Standardized forms and workflow across institutions
- Easy adoption: Colleges print applications and execute their traditional processes
- Transparency: Online access to submitted applications and merit lists
- Better monitoring and evaluation: Real-time reports across all colleges and programs