Online selection hailed

Letters

I ACKNOWLEDGE Higher Education Research Science and Technology Minister Pila Niningi and Secretary Fr Jan Czuba for facilitating the use of the online selection system.
For too long, we had the manual selection system to select school leavers for higher learning institutions which was slow, laborious, inefficient and riddled with discrepancies.
Moreover, the old process of selection denied many potential students with good grade point averages (GPAs) their rights to continue education at tertiary institutions.
It was also one of the contributing factors that pushed many school leavers out to the streets needlessly.
Now that the online selection system has been introduced, these abnormalities will be a thing of the past.
It also respects the intellectual capabilities of students.
When students do not meet the GPAs in their first preferences, they are automatically selected in other institutions that require that GPA, rather than pushing them out of the education system.
The digitised system was only introduced last year.
It was on a trial-and-error basis.
As the system matures in the years ahead, I am sure that it will be more efficient.

Steven Koya
Koalilombo village
Kagua
Southern Highlands