Why English Language Certification Institutes are going the Secure QR way ?

A simple search on google for ‘fake English teaching certificate’ can throw up 138,000 results in 0.53 seconds. And fake English-Speaking Certificates is a booming industry.

English Certification like TEFL(Teaching English as a Foreign Language) or TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) is one of the fastest-growing education certifications across the world. With global mobility being the norm and a borderless world, the demand for English teachers is higher than ever before. A TEFL/TESOL certification is a must towards getting a job teaching English in many countries.

A TEFL/ TESOL Certification helps schools and language institutes hire teachers who have undergone proper training. Usually, for these positions there is no need to possess a degree in education, prior teaching experience, or sometimes even a college degree as a prerequisite. The lack of other requirements like a degree makes it easy for many to forge their English Certification credentials.

They can get their certificates online as the below Google search results show

Figure 1 - Google search result for fake english certification

HOW DOES TEFL/ TESOL CERTIFICATION WORK?

Accredited TEFL certification is usually done with a highly qualified instructor covering the skills and tools that the aspirant will need to work as a professional English teacher. Professional-level courses must meet specific standards and include live practice teaching. Some include at least hundreds of hours of coursework and many hours of practice. And these are not easy.

WHAT CAN TEFL/ TESOL INSTITUTES DO TO CURB FAKE CERTIFICATES?

The steps that the TEFL/ TESOL institute can take

1. A secure and rigorous QR code-based encryption in the certificate awarded on completion of the course, is easy to implement and ready to use. A secure QR coded certificate would ensure that the Certificates are tamper-proof and can be validated by any third party with a simple smartphone app.

2. Issue English Proficiency certificates with embedded secure QR code by replacing the current low-security certificates which may rely on non-easily verifiable methods like holograms, watermarks and embossing.

3. These Secure QR code certificates can be printed in both physical-digital formats. This means they can even email their alumni if they wish to have authenticated credentials from anywhere across the world with minimum effort.

4. Verification has been an area which was often difficult in the past, with no easy means to verify the document’s authenticity. With tamper proof Secure QR Code-based verification, the English Language Certificate issuing body can help promote and publicise that all newly issued documents can be verified by any third party anywhere globally with no database access and with full privacy in a decentralized manner.

5. Authorities and third-party verifiers from across the world can easily verify these documents using either a smartphone app or with a web validation mechanism which confirms the authenticity of the document and that of the issuer.
   It thus becomes practically impossible for fraudsters to modify such certificates or issue fake ones in the names of authorised, reputed issuers. . Hence such fake certification scams can be largely prevented.

WHY QRYPTAL SECURE QR CODE IS THE BEST ANTI-COUNTERFEIT SOLUTION IN THE MARKET?

There are many different types of solutions – holograms, embossments, digital, RFID and intelligent chips, Secure QR code – that are available. Yet, these are the reasons why the Secure QR code solution becomes relevant -

• Seamless Security & Tamper proof

• Digital-Physical Certificates

• No dependence on databases

• Easy Generation and Integration with existing systems

• Affordable

• Ease of Verification

Here is a sample of such a Certificate:

Sample Language Certificate with Secure QR Code

We hope more institutes & certificate issuers take advantage of this simple technology and encourage you to sign up for a trial account to see how this can work for you.

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