Malaysia’s Ministry of Education (MoE) has decided to curb the degree duplicity and fraud issues using Blockchain, as Tweeted by MoE on November 8. The main motive behind this idea is to maintain the integrity and quality of education offered by Malaysian Universities to its students.

The tweet mentioned that the platform will be based on a University Consortium which will be used to issue and verify the authenticity of university-issued degree certificates. As the information will be stored in immutable blocks, only permissible group of audience can access and verify the information without any risk of frauds.

The initial phase of the initiative will cater to six public universities to be powered by NEM (XEM) Blockchain. Developed by a professor-led team from the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), the Consortium aims to protect the rights of its students while promoting distributed ledger technology.

Interestingly, MoE has also stressed the importance of blockchain by saying that the nation intends to spread skills training among students and to make the technology acceptable by them in the long run. Furthermore, the nation is also looking for implementing blockchain in its industrial field to ensure an efficient and tamper-free ecosystem.

Though, this step by the Malaysia’s Ministry of Education is not the first one of its kind, the nation is quite hopeful of witnessing fruitful results after the implementation of Blockchain Technology in terms of reduced degree frauds.