Wednesday, 19 December 2012

Transcript services for students and alumni of Nigerian tertiary institutions

ETX-NG assists students and alumni in obtaining their academic transcripts from any tertiary institution in Nigeria and we ensure the delivery of such transcripts to any school world-wide; whether electronic or paper. Rather than travel down to your school or send friends and relatives to obtain your academic transcripts, ETX-NG is able to assist with this faster.

We maintain a network of representatives covering each tertiary institution covered by ETX-NG who follows-up through with your order whilst working with the institution. Once the order is fulfilled, ETX-NG will ensure that your transcripts are delivered electronically where applicable or via courier and recorded channels otherwise. Our student services are as follows:

Transcript Order

Visit ETX-NG website www.etx-ng.com directly or either via an order page created for each institution.
Register and choose the school from which transcript is being requested as well as the school to which transcript is to be delivered.
Submit your order and make necessary payments
ETX-NG will take this order and process it according to the participation level of your institution
Where your institution is participating on the ETX-NG network, the request is forwarded to the sending school`s administrator who uploads the required transcript. ETX-NG processes the transcript and converts them to secure PDF files and store them temporarily.

Tracking Order

Where your institution is participating on the ETX-NG network, a secure and certified PDF format of the transcript is generated and sent electronically to the receiving school as official transcript where applicable; and where your institution is not on the ETX-NG network, we adopt all applicable manual processes. Once the transcript is delivered at the receiving destination, the process is complete and your order placement has been fulfilled. On the flip side, you are able to receive incoming transcripts from institutions not on the ETX-NG network through our transcript receiving free service

Tracking Delivery

Progress of transcript order placement are tracked via e-mails and/or sms alerts. You can subscribe for email and/or sms alerts while registering you order placement.

Wednesday, 21 November 2012

Obtaining Transcripts Made Easy in Nigeria

Over the years, obtaining transcripts from Universities and other Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria has come to be considered as an uphill task by Nigerian students/Alumni. This can be attributed to the rigors and bottlenecks that have come to be attached to a process which normally should to be done with ease and without so much as breaking a sweat. This is however no longer the case as a new service Company is now in place in Nigeria to make the Transcript ordering and delivery process a lot easier, faster and cheaper for Nigerian Students and Alumni.

The service company which is known as ETX-NG (Electronic Transcript Exchange and Degree Verification System for Nigeria), enables Nigerian student/alumni place an order for their transcript without stepping a foot in their school. This can be done irrespective of where the students/alumni are or where the school is located, by filling out a transcript order form online on the ETX-NG website.

For first time applicants, it takes 14 working days to obtain the ordered transcript as well as delivering it to the required institution irrespective of where the institution is located on the globe. This is an improvement to the current practice, where transcripts take a longer time to get to the receiving institutions on demand.

In addition, using this system, ETX-NG aims to keep universities in Nigeria at par with leading international schools in the process of transcript ordering, processing and delivery.

Asides providing a solution to students and alumni, ETX-NG also helps to simplify the process of verifying degrees and certificates for employers in Nigeria. Due to the fact that degree and certificate fraud is a serious and costly problem in Nigeria, it is now a necessity to verify degrees and certificates tendered by employees.

However, corporate firms, organizations and companies face the almost the same hitches and hurdles that students and alumni face in the process of obtaining their transcripts. It is important to note that ETX-NG has received the endorsement the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), which has encouraged all Nigerian universities and Polytechnics as well as other higher institutions of learning in the country to hook up to this new service of transcript exchange and degree verification system.

Tuesday, 13 November 2012

ETX-NG Transcript Solutions to Students/Alumni of Nigeria

Having realized the challenges involved in obtaining transcripts from Nigerian Higher institutions, ETX-NG is spear-heading the use of an Electronic Transcripts Exchange Platform that will have the following core features:

Convenient 24/7 Access

Our online transcript ordering service offers a fast, simple way to order copies of your official transcript. Instead of students going to their school`s registration office, now they can go to the Web. This means that you can request a transcript from universities in Nigeria with just a click of the mouse

Fully Traceable

No more lost transcripts! Both the university and their students will be notified when the transcript is sent, received and opened. They will even know exactly who opened it so you can relay their contact information to the student.

Instantaneous Delivery

Instead of days or weeks, official transcripts can now be sent and received anywhere in the world (for participating institutions) within seconds.

Unmatched Document Security

Encrypted data is transmitted via a secure Internet connection applying the same high security protocols and confidentiality standards used for online banking and commerce.

Enhanced Student Service

Whether they’re applying to graduate school or starting their career, students won’t have to worry about missing a deadline or a job opportunity because their transcript was slow arriving or lost in the mail.

Increased Office Efficiencies

With our proposed solution, sending transcripts takes less time so you can focus on other tasks. Plus, your paper burden can be significantly reduced and more transcripts archived electronically and out of your way.

Lower Costs

For options with no postage, paper or envelopes to stuff, students can lower the cost of sending a transcript

Universal Readability

There are no global boundaries. The PDF format allows the transcript to be read by virtually anyone, anywhere - in its official format – maintaining the authentic look and integrity of your transcript.

Easy to Implement

Advanced web technology enables easy and safe implementation with most student systems and does not require extensive IT support.

The challenges of obtaining transcripts in Nigeria

Students/ Alumni have identified the following as the problems they frequently face in trying to obtain their transcripts from their schools in Nigeria.

Difficult & Frustrating

If you’ve ever attempted to secure academic transcripts from any Nigerian university, or from other institutions of higher learning, you must know how difficult and frustrating it can be. Although securing academic documents and transcripts may be slightly easier if you live in Nigeria; attempting to do so from abroad can be annoying, traumatic and time consuming.

Expensive & Delay Prone

Aside from the official fee to be paid to the school, facilitators within the school system would also need to be paid or “greased”. Moreover, friends and relatives who spent their time going back and forth must also be compensated. Transcript (and postage) that ordinarily should cost no more than N10,000 for example, may end up costing the requester upward of N40,000. You can’t even quantify the cost of time spent, along with the stress and other incalculable resources. And indeed, there is no guarantee that the requested documents will arrive, or arrive in a timely fashion to its required destination.

Susceptible to Forgery

One of the unintended consequences of these difficulties is that some Nigerians have taken to forging documents. Forging documents is a crime; but it is even more criminal and malicious when an institution refuses to, or intentionally delay sending supporting documents to enable one achieve ones goal.

Negative Impact on Ambition

In addition, many Nigerians have failed to secure employment or graduate school admission all because Nigerian schools and other institutions failed to send complete and correct transcript in a timely manner. How many dreams have been cut short by the actions and inaction of these wayward institutions or officers within those institutions? One may never know the answer.

ETX-NG believes that procuring official school documents shouldn’t be that difficult. An alumnus of a major university in Nigeria once said “If schools want to increase the fee for such services, well then, they should go ahead. But for goodness sake, they should fulfil their obligation to their former students.”

Saturday, 10 November 2012

Introducing ETX-NG

About ETX-NG Transcripts Services in Nigeria

Students and graduates depend on universities to provide timely transcripts processing and degree verification services to help them get jobs faster and meet graduate school deadlines. We wish to introduce ETX-NG to help improve these services and efficiency – at no cost to any participating institution.

ETX-NG IS LOCAL

ETX-NG is a simple and user-friendly technology platform that empowers Nigerian students, companies and higher institutions in 3 basic ways:

Students and alumni can order transcripts anytime, anywhere from tertiary institutions in Nigeria and have the transcripts delivered electronically to most universities world-wide.
Tertiary institutions in Nigeria can send and receive transcripts as well as verify the degrees of their student applications between each other in a controlled, secure, and trusted environment - instantaneously!
Companies can request to verify staff degrees and professional certifications for employment and other purposes from higher educational institutions in Nigeria

ETX-NG IS ALSO GLOBAL

In addition to enabling the secure exchange of transcripts between higher educational institutions in Nigeria, ETX-NG also enables the request, transfer and delivery of transcripts from higher educational institutions in Nigeria to institutions within and outside the country through our collaboration with exchanges in other parts of the world.ETX-NG is dedicated to delivering the highest quality transcript and degree verification exchange service in Africa. Through our dedicated passion and client-focused philosophy, we will provide un-matched customer services, foster growth of our team members and remain ethical and responsible in all participating universities.