Holberton thinks it has found a way to combat fake degrees. Software School Tackles Fake Degrees Using the Blockchain
There's a lot of stuff like this starting to happen. I've heard it suggested that the blockchain is more important than Bitcoin itself.
I believe that. And perhaps we'll soon all be able to make minuscule sums of money, using our computers 24/7 to verify degrees instead of Bitcoin transactions. :smile: J.
Now we have movies about (1) Steve Jobs and (2) Facebook -- how long until a major studio releases "The Blockchain?" Could be a decent thriller. J.
Here's a sort of follow up Diploma mills and fake degrees are a global problem, that blockchain tech is tackling » Brave New Coin
So, one thing I found useful from this website was the University database for the UK. I really wish that government databases like this (and the US equivalent) are really an excellent resource to crack down on diploma mill usage. Degree from Atlantic International University? Excellent. Huh, it doesn't appear in the US database. Oh, British accreditation? Cool. Huh, not in the UK database either. Seems pretty clear cut to me. Go a step further and get a bunch of countries together and make one big freaking database. You know, like an official one not like the enormous (but privately held and maintained) one operated by evaluators like WES. Then again, that would be efficient and useful, two services governments tend not to specialize in.
I really like the CHEA one because it allows me to search by programmatic accreditor. So I can easily pull up a list of AACSB accredited business programs. The USDOE one I references only shows institutional accreditation. But I think it provides more information than CHEA (for example, if you search for the University of Atlanta it has information on its teach-out through DEAC).