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BU to soon offer online verification of certificates

By Nagesh Prabhu

BANGALORE MARCH 24. Bangalore University has embarked on a networking project to verify degree certificates online, which will help candidates applying for jobs in companies located abroad.

At present, foreign companies dispatch letters to the university authorities requesting them to verify original certificates and marks cards produced by prospective employees. Such correspondence usually takes more than two months leading to a delay in recruitment. Sometime, the university authorities don't reply to such a request, and this can jeopardise someone's career.

To overcome the delay in the communication and administrative process, the university planned to commence an online networking project from the next academic year, which would benefit students in many ways, the Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor, M.S. Thimmappa, told The Hindu. It would also help students applying for admission in foreign universities.

The Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE) has already introduced online verification of certificates. By entering the registration number printed on the marks card, companies and foreign universities can download a copy of the certificate of any student and verify the original certificate given by the university, the Vice-Chancellor says.

Besides assisting companies and universities, the database of the academic records of students will enable parents who are abroad to check how their children have performed in examinations. Parents can also interact with the university online and can seek details of attendance, courses, and marks obtained in different subjects.

The project will commence after it is approved by the Academic Council of the university at its meeting at the end of the month. Once it is approved, tenders will be called and reputed companies will be assigned to work on the Rs. three-crore project.

In the beginning, the online networking project will link all 42 departments in the Jnana Bharati and the Central College campuses of the university, and they in turn, will be linked to the library and the administrative wing. Later the network will include the 400-odd affiliated colleges. Over 3.5 lakh students of different colleges will have online access to library facilities, courses, and syllabus content, Prof. Thimmappa says.

The networking project will help get rid of touts from the university campus. The university has received many complaints from students and the public about officials harassing students and college representatives when they visit the university to collect information or submit applications for various courses.

Prof. Thimmappa believes the "networking project will reduce manpower, undue delay in the admission process, and increase the university's credibility". Once the network is in place, information on various aspects such as dates when applications will be issued and admissions made, courses offered by the university and the affiliated colleges, and announcement of results can be accessed online.

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