I need to provide official academic transcripts from all my academic study (so three degrees from three different universities).

They all have three separate ways of applying, (mostly its print a form and mail to them)

• one of them is 'shut down' for the next week due to the load of graduating students, and will not even let me complete the paperwork until then.
• one of them - insists that I pay by Cheque (or money order) - and will not take credit cards.

I thought this was going to be easy - but its going to be a lot of stuffing around with needles paperwork.

Three years ago, when I applied for my MBA, there was a back channel between the universities that meant I did not need to provide any paperwork. That no longer exists. Maybe getting our universities to talk to each other would be a HUGE start with this new Australian Based innovation.

If this is our higher education procedure and processes, I don't hold high hopes for a billion dollars of innovation from the Government.