I was researching on programs for secretariat studies when I bumped into Nigeria Institute of professional secretary (NIPS) and women secretary of Nigeria (CIWSON).
Going through their syllabus and the shorthand course caught my attention and I kind of wonder if shorthand is still relevant with all the model way of taking note including voice recording.

Is it that our institution are still behind or is shorthand still relevant in this modern world.

Yes, still relevant. If you know what it means to write 100 words in a minute, then you'll appreciate shorthand.

Ask a journalist.

domack99:
I was researching on programs for secretariat studies when I bumped into Nigeria Institute of professional secretary (NIPS) and women secretary of Nigeria (CIWSON).
Going through their syllabus and the shorthand course caught my attention and I kind of wonder if shorthand is still relevant with all the model way of taking note including voice recording.

Is it that our institution are still behind or is shorthand still relevant in this modern world.

The Guy above sha.Na 5G network u dey use?

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a method of rapid writing by means of abbreviations and symbols, used especially for taking dictation. The major systems of shorthand currently in use are those devised in 1837 by Sir Isaac Pitman and (in the US) in 1888 by John R. Gregg (1867–1948).

I saw the app on play store.

any modern typewriter/keyboard with short hand app?

I can never understand this society

In 2 Pac's voice.

Hated dat subject soo much in second school days

No!

Who short hand Don epp?

Way back in secondary school that subject would boost Your intelligence or the woman would report you to the Principal you know the rest.
I wish i knew the subject
was meant for secretaries

Secretary abi secretariat? I don't know anything again

Adiwana:

The Guy above sha.Na 5G network u dey use?

5G no dey naija bros.

Yes, it is still useful. Ask Journalists, Presidential secretaries, etc. Do you know what taking notes of 100 words per minutes is?

The usage of shorthand should have gone into extinction but for some reason Nigeria syllabus still appreciate the mechanism in the era of improvised IT.
you have apps dictator, speech translator

shorthand still dey exist?

It's no longer relevant because with your phone recorder youcan record every minutes of a mmeeting

Shorthand....lmao...

It shuld scrapped completely. One ghanian lecturer use dat course finish girls for my HND days.

dfrost:
Yes, still relevant. If you know what it means to write 100 words in a minute, then you'll appreciate shorthand.

Ask a journalist.

lonelydora:
Yes, it is still useful. Ask Journalists, Presidential secretaries, etc. Do you know what taking notes of 100 words per minutes is?

Why struggle to write 100 words in a minute when you can just record the audio with your mobile phone? Even in meetings, secretaries don't write minutes but record with their phones so they can prepare the minute later. This is more efficient

Shorthand is good but with modern tech, it is becoming useless.
This made me to remember my nick in the secondary school = shorthand

seunlayi:
Shorthand is good but with modern tech, it is becoming useless.

This made me to remember my nick in the secondary school = shorthand

You are right.

the course is very funny. that's one of my course this semester.the lecturer taken it is even a proff in shorthand, is this same question we asked him the other day. he said shorthand can help you in your pronunciation since it the representation of spoken sound with signs,symbols and strokes

LOL. Secretaries are a dying breed in most corporates. There are absolutely none in my company - and its a billion dollar firm. Likewise at one of the top banks I used to work at, Only the GMD had one - and even then, the dude did not know short-hand.

ngoben:
Hated dat subject soo much in second school days

It's actually easy once you pay attention at the beginning and figure out the basic concepts. I was some sort of whizkid in it back in the day.

if you know it, then good for u.

Bagehot:
LOL. Secretaries are a dying breed in most corporates. There are absolutely none in my company - and its a billion dollar firm. Likewise at one of the top banks I used to work at, Only the GMD had one - and even then, the dude did not know short-hand.

You're right. Everyone does their own secretary things nowadays, especially in the West. We still have a lot of big men in Nigeria who retain secretaries, but if you were trained as a secretary it's time to start acquiring some other skill or profession.

Who needs old shorthand when we have invented new ones like:
u
lol
lmao
BRB
k
kk
TGIF
OMG
UWC
PMB
GEJ

Gone 4 ever

It's no longer relevant