Abstract:
Education sector is one of the crucial sectors in whole world and Uganda particularly which
has provided people with knowledge and skills which had led to the economic development
in various sectors of the economy.
The industry comprises of various levels such as primary, secondary, university and others
which are both private and public. And this sector at various levels its prone to false
academic documents due the desire for people to obtain employment in the current
competitive job market, lack of uniform process and means to authenticity of academic and
professional qualification by prospective employers, advancement in technology hence
making companies incur financial and production losses as a result of hiring unqualified
employees.
The developed electronic academic certificate verification system prevents prospect
employees with fake academic certificate and this will reduce in the production of fake
academic certificates in Uganda. The system is able to register a student at the university
on the server side by the academic registrar with the corresponding students’ information
with the results, his finger print and the Barcode ID on the certificate. After registration at
the server side, the students’ information is saved. Verification is done at the client side
where one has to scan the Barcode id and thumbprint and this is compared remotely with
server side to see whether the comparisons are matching. In case there is matching at the
client side, the system displays valid certificate and in case there is matching the system
displays invalid certificate.
This report discusses the background of the Electronic Academic certificate verification
system, problem faced by the employers as well as problem solving by showing the design
and implementation of the above mentioned system.
