The blockchain-based qualification documents are expected to help preserve the university’s reputation.
Report: South African University to Issue Blockchain-Based Certificates to Graduating Students
A South African university has said starting this year it will issue blockchain-based certificates to students graduating from the learning institution. University administrators argued that a blockchain-based certification system will help prevent fraud and end the production of fake documents.A South African learning institution, the University of Johannesburg , has said it will issue blockchain-based certificates to its graduates starting this year, a report has said.
Tinus van Zyl, the university’s senior director of central academic administration, is quoted in the report explaining why the blockchain-based system is an improvement from the digital certificate system which UJ introduced some time ago. According to Van Zyl, the university’s graduates had been using the digital certificate system to digitally access or share their certificates with prospective employers.
“The public is now able to validate the awarded qualifications for UJ graduates without having to contact the University or having to go through a verification agency, just by scanning the QR code on the certificate and best of all, at no cost,” Van Zyl stated. Meanwhile, another UJ employee, Kinta Burger, is quoted in the report suggesting that the implementation of the blockchain-based certificate system will safeguard the university’s reputation and that of the certificates it issues.
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