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Saturday, July 26, 2025

GATE crashing

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There's a good idea at the core of the new­ly in­tro­duced GATE e-ser­vice. The project is a sen­si­ble ef­fort at mov­ing the work­load of reg­is­ter­ing stu­dents and mon­i­tor­ing their progress–and the pos­si­ble lack of it–through soft­ware.Ac­cord­ing to the ser­vice's log-in page, stu­dents "will be able to ac­cess GATE Pro­gramme through on­line ap­pli­ca­tion sub­mis­sion any­time and any­where...(and) man­age their ap­pli­ca­tions as well as en­quire for the cur­rent sta­tus of the ap­pli­ca­tion sub­mit­ted."

On the in­tro­duc­tion of the new elec­tron­ic ser­vice, stu­dents were met in­stead by an on­go­ing col­lapse of the sys­tem.Ap­pli­cants try­ing to use the elec­tron­ic ser­vice were met by 503 er­rors, in­di­cat­ing that the ser­vice was un­avail­able, an in­di­ca­tor that the soft­ware might not have been prop­er­ly test­ed for the sus­tained use of its for­mal in­tro­duc­tion.Some in­sid­ers claim that the sys­tem, said to be de­signed by a Sin­ga­pore­an firm, was glitchy right from the start.

Such al­le­ga­tions cer­tain­ly bear in­ves­ti­ga­tion in a post-mortem of the fail­ures that ac­com­pa­nied the in­tro­duc­tion of the sys­tem, but UWI did the right thing in ex­tend­ing the dead­line for reg­is­tra­tion by three weeks, ac­knowl­edg­ing the start­up prob­lems and of­fer­ing stu­dents a chance to be bet­ter pre­pared for the new process.

http://www.guardian.co.tt/dig­i­tal/new-mem­bers


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