The education industry has long been plagued by fake certificates, fake diplomas from ghost universities, etc. In fact, there is a million-dollar industry powered by fake certificates. There are diploma mills that provide fake certificates from made-up universities. In the 2018 scandal of Axact, a company earned over 3 million dollars selling fake certificates and diplomas to clients across the world.
Degrees, certificates and marksheets are issued to students when they pass out. Student being potential candicate applies for a job and submits the degree to employer. After the candicate is appointed, the employer gets a hard time to verify educational documents. Why? because the manual verification of these documents is a tedious task. It involves multiple level of human interaction and it is also a time consuming task which imposes an extra burden to the university or colleges. In most cases, the employer will not even shortlist the candidates having degrees or certificates that cannot be verified from the educational institutes.
Another abstacle is, with the quick availability of software like Photoshop and Adobe Indesign, and with anyone having basic designing knowledge, counterfeit documents can instantly be made in minutes.
Even more so, verifying whether it is fake or authentic can be challenging.
Fake certificates and documents can be prevented with e-certificates powered by Quick Response codes.
QR codes on certificates and how does it work?
Using QR codes on certificates, you can redirect scanners to the document's information to the official website online, where they can verify whether it's authentic or not.
When the individual or the authority wants to check if the certificate’s original, he can scan the QR code printed on the certificate, and he will be landed to the website’s URL and view the information on the website’s official database, which cannot be counterfeited.
This is the safest way to avoid counterfeit certificates as they can't be copied.
The QR codes printed on certificates will act as an identifier enabling the end-user to access the data online in its official database or to the central web system where they can validate the product.
How can Leverage Accounting Software prevent tampering of educational documents ?
Using such document security system offers significant benefits
- No network infrastructure needed in-house
- Instant verification of degrees or certificates without mobile app
- It works for both printed and electronic transcripts, marksheets and certificates
- It can only be generated by the issuing educational organisation and cannot be faked or tampered by anyone else
- It helps the educational organisation to build a reputation for integrity and strengthens its brand
- Helps to reduce costs as there is no need to maintain a team for confirming authenticity of documents
- Results in faster acceptance of submitted documents which is beneficial to students
- Protects the privacy of both the document holder and the document issuer
Register with Leverage Accounting Software and start generating and printing QR codes on your degrees and certificates in 5 minutes
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