Wodonga TAFE now issuing verified digital certifications and awards with My eQuals
Higher Ed Services (HES) and Digitary by Parchment are proud to welcome Wodonga TAFE to the My eQuals community. The My eQuals partnership enables Wodonga TAFE students immediate access to their digital academic documents through the My eQuals platform – available to them anywhere, any time via a secure login.
With approximately 10,000 students a year, Wodonga TAFE is one of the largest regional TAFE institutions in Victoria. Wodonga TAFE has a proud history of educating many northeast Victorian students and is a leading provider of vocational education and training that strengthens local communities and industries through its accessible and innovative learning, operating in the fast-growing north-east Victorian region.
Wodonga TAFE has now begun to issue digitally certified awards through My eQuals and is complementing these official awards with the recognition of micro-credentials and associated short courses through My eQuals to all students studying at Wodonga TAFE. My eQuals will enable verifying organisations such as employers and other industry partners to request students to share their verified records through My eQuals, as the trusted and official source of their awards from Wodonga TAFE.
Since the official go-live in October 2022, Wodonga TAFE’s Student Administration team has successfully issued close to 2000 documents. Of these issued documents – over 800 have been Statement of Attainments and the remainder Certificates and the academic transcripts that accompany the Certificate.
The inclusion of My eQuals at Wodonga TAFE has several benefits, including the guarantee of the integrity and authenticity of the student’s documents. Students are also able to authorise sharing of their documents with employers and other training providers where required. This removes the need for copying and certifying of training records and enables easy verification of the student’s education claims.
Wodonga TAFE’s Team Leader of Student Administration, Melissa Wise said “it is wonderful to see the project come to fruition, and the successful uptake by the TAFE’s students. It is great to be able to provide our students with secure documents and allow them the flexibility to share them with others as they need”
Jay Segeth, My eQuals Program Director at HES said, “HES and the My eQuals community are really excited for Wodonga TAFE to join the evolving network and enable their institution to issue verified academic records that maintain the integrity of their issued credentials.”
“Digitary and Wodonga TAFE have worked extremely collaboratively over the past few months in establishing a My eQuals instance for Wodonga TAFE to start servicing their students with digitally certified awards. Understanding that Wodonga TAFE was keen to alleviate document fraud and enable a secure and streamlined system for Wodonga TAFE to utilise and issue to their students, we feel has been effectively achieved throughout this project,” says Daniel Hibbert, Director at Digitary by Parchment.
Wodonga TAFE joins over 74 education providers already serviced by the My eQuals solution, with more than 2.1 million students registered across Australian and New Zealand universities and training providers. A focus on security is critical to the platform’s success, with My eQuals data stored in Australia, using advanced cryptographic hardware and banking-level security.
About Wodonga TAFE
Wodonga TAFE is proud of its reputation as a leading provider of vocational education and training, offering education and training programs to individuals and industry, locally and nationally. For further details visit www.wodongatafe.edu.au
About My eQuals
My eQuals is the official tertiary credentials digital platform for the higher education sector, students, and verifiers. It is a Pan-Pacific solution providing easy, secure access to certified, official qualification records for Australian and New Zealand universities and their learners. For further details visit: www.myequals.edu.au
About Digitary
Digitary was launched in Dublin, Ireland in 2005, and has grown to become the leading online platform for certifying, sharing, and verifying academic credentials. Learner-centric since the very start, Digitary enables millions of learners to access their verified achievements and to share them with others securely, quickly, and easily. Digitary is now used by organisations in over 135 countries. For further details visit www.digitary.net
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AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT:
Jared Press, Manager, Brand, Marketing and Communications –jpress@wodongatafe.edu.au
Jay Segeth, My eQuals Program Director, HES – jsegeth@hes.edu.au
Daniel Hibbert, Commercial Director, Digitary by Parchment – daniel.hibbert@digitary.net
MEDIA ENQUIRIES:
Jared Press, Manager, Brand, Marketing and Communications, Wodonga TAFE – jpress@wodongatafe.edu.au
Marni MacGilp, Manager, Portfolio Marketing, Digitary by Parchment – marni.macgilp@digitary.net