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Please write 1,500 word Briefing Document should: • Introduce the nature of the issue that is being addressed • Outline briefly the possible solutions that could be adopted • use detail why you are not recommending at least two possible solutions • Explain which solution you are recommending, and provide justifications • Conclude your document with a summary of your main points •
should university go paperless and why please give the advantages and disadvantages.
We will now be discussing whether universities should go paperless or not. The issue that is currently being adressed is a feasibility study of making universities go paperless, it's advantages, disadvantages,etc. Here, the main issue is that nost of the administrative tasks in almost all universities are very much paper based which makes things very tedious and prone to human error.
The possible solutions is to make repititive paper based administrative purposes online or automated. Like for example, admission brochure and prospectus, admission process, daily attendance, student records, daily academic assignments, time table,academic calendar, holiday list,university staff payroll,file or document sharing, communication by mails and letters to the university etc . These processes can be made online and student and university details can be stored online on university websites,databases etc. and communication to the university can be done by emails instead of paper based mails and letters etc. Even exams can be made online and results can also be published online. Even final degree certificates can be published online that students can download.
Advantages are, these online methods are very efficient,sophisticated, benefits the environment by avoiding papers and everything is available and sent online. It is also economical as we don't have to buy papers, pens etc. The teaching also gets very much digital in nature and aligned to the industry and new ways of online study and research. It streamlines the processes as well.So I would recommend the above processes to go paperless.
Two processes which I would not recommend to go online are:
1. Subjects that involve a lot of diagrams like Engineering Drawing, Biology, Zoology, Botany etc needs papers and pensils to draw and its difficult to draw them using online tools. So, these subjects cannot be fully automated and paper work might be required.
2. Online methods though efficient should not be made compulsory from the beginning itself. This is because, there are many students and staffs who are not computer literate and are habituated to paper and pen. They would need some time to upgrade. So, initially, paperless methods should be encouraged but made optional and time should be given to students and staffs to upgrade.
3. For Universities where laptops and other connectivity cannot be provided to students, going paperless is not recommended.
We already discussed the advantages of Universities going paperless.
So the disadvantages of going completely paperless are that many people are not completely trained for that, many universities do not provide laptops and connectivity to everyone and there are many subjects like Biology, Botany, Arts and Painting, Engineering drawing, Zoology etc., that require paper and pencil to draw and drawing it online is not very easy.