在其他高等院校还在采用填写申请表进行研究生申请的时候，邓迪大学决定采用UKPASS的研究生申请系统，大大减少了纸张的使用。邓迪大学是苏格兰高等教育学府中首家采用该系统的大学。

无纸化研究生申请位大学及学生提供了便利，据称，邓迪大学每年收到近3，000份研究生申请表，每份申请使用了大量的纸张，而且大学要把这些文件寄到世界各地。UKPASS研究生申请系统的实施大大减少了大学的工作量，使申请者更容易的进行申请，大学也能更快的处理学生的申请，同时还减少了纸张的使用。

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The days of students having to fill in paper applications for postgraduate courses are over with the launch of a new online system.

The University of Dundee is the first higher education institution in Scotland to adopt the UKPASS system for postgraduate applications, which removes a massive amount of paper from the system.

"We get around 3000 postgraduate applications every year and each one of those fills a fair chunk of paper and has to be posted or couriered to the University," said Dr Ramanee Peiris, Postgraduate e-Recruitment & Admissions Manager at Dundee.

"Opening the system to online applications makes things easier and more accessible for students, quicker for us to process and will also remove mountains of paper from our offices!"

While school leavers have been making applications online for several years through the official body UCAS, graduates applying for MSc courses have had to make do with pen and paper.

That has changed with the launch today (November 15th) of UKPASS (the UK Postgraduate Application and Statistical Service) for anyone wanting to apply for Taught and Research postgraduate programmes in the UK.

This has been created by the world leaders in student applications, UCAS, with data being provided by Graduate Prospects (the most visited graduate career advice website).

Applicants can avoid multiple form filling as core data is captured once, so if they are applying for more than one programme they just need to answer those questions specific to that institution or course. They can also send attachments as part of that process. An email is sent to the applicant if an institution has made a decision allowing them to track their progress and reply to offers online at any point, all within the same area.

This entirely online service provides options for institutions to personalise applications with the university or college logo and to add tailored questions to allow them to extract information specific to that application. Being a centralised system, it offers universities additional market intelligence about their applicants and also their competitors at the touch of a button.

The introduction of UKPASS presents exciting opportunities for the postgraduate sector as a whole and will be formally launched by Anthony McClaran, the Chief Executive of UCAS and Bill Rammell, the Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education at a postgraduate event at Woburn Conference Centre in London on 15 November.