Electronic academic certificate verification system.

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.