Cebu students know the wait for school documents

Every college student in Cebu (Philippines) deals with the daily traffic and with class suspension announcements as unpredictable as the weather. We are pretty sure there is one more thing they all face, and that is processing school documents by hand and going through manual admission systems.

You use your break to work on your documents, because let's face it, that is the only time you have, and then you find out it is the office's break time too. Sometimes the office loses the important papers you filled out so carefully. Sometimes they give you a date to come back and claim your document, you show up on time, and the papers are not ready yet.

Symph ran an online survey of university students in Cebu about how they feel going through these processes, and these are the results we got:

Students are not the only ones who get worn out. Office staff and working scholars do the legwork of going through each document, checking that the forms are valid and printing them, while facing annoyed people in long lines, and they get tired of this repetitive work too.

All of this takes too much effort and time (and paper and staple wires) for something that should not be that big of a problem.

Technology keeps getting more advanced, so schools could do more with it than provide WiFi across campus. They could use it to automate and digitize these processes.

Symph, a team of web designers and developers, is looking into proposing a centralized online platform for each university, where students and school offices can handle enrollment and request and provide the documents students need. That would mean no more time, effort and good vibes lost to waiting.

We want to #CreateBetter educational systems in Cebu and the whole Philippines with technology, one institution at a time.

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