By Another week and yet another innovative use for blockchain technology. This time an Indian Top Ten Business School, SP Jain School of Global Management recently issued 1189 blockchain-based certificates to graduates who had recently completed degrees and other certifications.
These certificates, which are now up on the Ethereum network will give potential employers as well any other interested parties the ability to verify the authenticity of a job hunter’s educational background without the tedious task of contacting the school to in order to verify.
This validation process as intuitive as it gets and interested parties need not to possess any technical know-how in order to look up the necessary information.
In addition to the simple interface, no additional software or equipment is required. All a potential employer needs to do is scan a QR code which is printed upon the certificate.
All The Details:
In addition to the educational qualifications, other info/data pertaining to a graduate will also be stored on the blockchain. This information includes projects, portfolios, marks and attendance rates. All this information will be readily available with the privacy of the graduate being compromised.
Nitish Jain, President Of SP Jain School of Global Management had this to say:
“There have been various attempts globally to issue certificates on the blockchain. But so far no one has captured the complete lifecycle of the certification, students’ attendance and other private data are securely stored in the school’s private blockchain and only the certification related data is exposed to the public Ethereum blockchain.”
The JP School of Global Management, in their recent feat of issuing their 1189 certificates to their graduates, joins a growing list of countries and educational institutions who have adopted distributed ledger technology in order to combat fraud which is related to educational qualifications IE, degrees & diplomas
The Carribean & Malaysia:
Just last month, Malaysia’s Ministry of Education revealed their blockchain-based verification and issuance system for the distribution of university degrees. The difference here being, with SP Jain they turned to ETH while Malaysia sought the help of the NEM blockchain. This was also in an effort to combat the rising numbers of fake degrees which ultimately puts legitimate students at disadvantages & peril as well society on a whole:
“The fake educational certificates not only disadvantage genuine students but also pose numerous dangers to society when critical sectors such as healthcare are staffed with people of questionable expertise.”
Last month in North America, The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) issued blockchain-based academic certificates to a whopping 24 000 graduates who completed their midyear exams earlier this year. These blockchain-based “e-certificates were uploaded & shared across the open-source Blockerts Wallet in an effort to speed up the verification process which in the past would take up to several weeks or even months to complete.
Could blockchain technology become the future of verification and issuance of tertiary education documentation? Let us know your thoughts
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