South African University has announced it will start issuing Blockchain-based Certificates to Students Graduating from Its Learning Institution. The university administrators claimed that the blockchain-based certification system would help to prevent fraud, and eliminate fake documents.
QR Code to Each Certificate
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) has announced that its blockchain-based certificate program will be available to all of its students starting in the new year. The report states that each document containing qualifications issued by the university will include a QR code, which can be used for verification.
The university adopted the Blockchain-based Certification System as part of its attempt to combat fraud and counterfeiting UJ-issued certificates, according to the Mybroadband Report.
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.
Third-Party Certification of Certificates
Using the blockchain-based system, on the other hand, means prospective employers and third parties can now also verify a graduate’s certificate.
“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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