Detecting fake universities

in a digital world

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20180911120249317

 

Someday will come an expose of fraud within legitimate schools. Cheating students and corrupt professors, administrators, IT personnel...

Why wouldn't there be with the stakes so high?

 

It is definitely overhyped - and I've read of another technology that may well overtake Blockchain in the not-so-distant future - and no, I have no shares to sell. Blockchain or other verification technologies may well serve to reduce forgery - fake diplomas of good schools. What it won't do is stop the profusion of degrees from bad schools - substandard, mills, Axact-type "schools" etc. There is nothing to stop the worst degree mills on earth from getting on Blockchain and advertising it.

"Our degrees are Blockchain certified. That means they're genuine. (Yes, it does - genuinely issued by a very bad school - not a forgery.) And it means they're every bit as good as we say they are. (No it dangety well doesn't mean that - not one bit)."

For substandard and milled degrees - Blockchain and similar-purpose technology could be the new, "improved" Apostille.

 

Yes - it will solve the problem of fake degrees purporting to be from legit institutions. Neither Blockchain nor anything else I can think of will eliminate the really "bad" schools. I'd bet more than half of them operate from nuke-proof bunkers, as it is!
Interesting trend - WES is going to issue Blockchain badges to its clients with verified international degrees. I like it! https://news.coinsquare.com/blockchain/world-education-services-blockchain-verify-education-credentials/