UCAS and electronic delivery of student application forms

The aim of the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) is to fill every available higher education course in the UK with the most appropriate students as quickly and cost-effectively as possible. With increasing numbers of applicants, realising this vision will mean delivering student application forms electronically to all the institutions it serves, which involves moving from a paper-based to an electronic form. Such change cannot happen overnight, and needs careful planning. To achieve this, three separate projects are underway, each of which will play a part in turning the vision into reality. These are the ATAPS, Electronic Application and ICR projects. The purpose of this paper is to give an insight into the document management technology which will be used.