Tunisia has adopted a blockchain-powered system to verify education credentials to combat academic fraud – a move that is expected to facilitate student mobility between national and foreign universities, along with enhancing graduate employment in the country and beyond.
The recently launched unified Arab system for diploma authenticity verification was integrated into the student data-management systems of three universities after a pilot project.
The adopted blockchain-powered system comes in response to a 2023 investigation by the Tunisian Association for the Fight Against Corruption, which uncovered that between 120,000 and 200,000 civil servants were allegedly employed between 2011 and 2021 using fraudulent diplomas, a significant portion of the workforce. The Tunisian government, at the end of December 2024, had only about 600,000 civil servants.
The system is, therefore, a key component of the ministry of higher education and scientific research’s digital transformation strategy designed to enhance digital skills and modernise the higher education sector along with safeguarding diploma integrity.
Enhanced qualification integrity can facilitate academic and professional mobility by ensuring immediate global recognition of credentials, as well as bolstering the credibility and competitiveness of Tunisian universities worldwide.
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