Getting rid of registration at the LSE
Katherine Forbes‐Pitt · 2004
At LSE we register 8000 students a year at the beginning of October. Registration has been an onerous but necessary task for both staff and students of the School for many years. It has been costly for the School, and time consuming and frustrating for both students and staff. Over the last three years, the process has been changing. Initially the changes were technology led. The success of these changes boosted the registry's confidence in change and technology. They approached Business Systems and Services (BSS) to design systems to support their radical new registration. Working together, the impact of the necessary process of registration has been minimised for students and staff. A more efficient and cheaper process has been devised and the onerous and long period of queuing, form filling and data entry has been all but abolished.