My eQuals at the end of 2025: when a network becomes infrastructure
Jeremiah Allen-Juric, Senior Business Development Manager at Instructure (the technology company powering My eQuals), reflects on how My eQuals has become a trusted regional infrastructure for official credentials across higher education, vocational training, and professional bodies. If you’d like to learn more, you can book a meeting here.
By the end of 2025, My eQuals has not so much changed direction as it has continued to consolidate the position it was designed to hold from the outset: a trusted source for official credentials. While it began as a shared response to a practical problem, it always carried the intention to become durable infrastructure. Over time, through steady adoption and consistent use, that intention has become reality.
That continuity matters. Credentials only work when they are recognised, yet recognition is not something a platform can assert into existence. It is earned through repetition, through institutional confidence, and through the quiet decisions organisations make when accuracy, integrity, and trust genuinely matter.
My eQuals reaches 90% of TAFEs and expands into New Zealand’s ITP sector
This year, 131 providers are issuing their official credentials through My eQuals. Universities remain at the core of the network, but one of the most significant developments has been the depth of participation beyond higher education alone. Close to 90 per cent of TAFE institutes nationally have now joined the collective universities on the platform, strengthening the portability of learner records across sectors that were once separated by system boundaries. For learners moving from vocational education into higher education, this is not symbolic progress; it is a practical shift that enables achievement to follow them.
The network has also continued to extend beyond Australia. In Aotearoa New Zealand, My eQuals expanded into the ITP sector, with Ara Institute of Canterbury committing to join in February 2026. This step reflects a broader regional pattern: institutions are not joining because digital credentials are new, but because My eQuals is already familiar, widely recognised, and understood by the organisations with which their learners will interact long after graduation.
Beyond traditional tertiary education providers
Another vital evolution during 2025 has been the expansion beyond traditional tertiary education providers. Statutory skills and professional assessment authorities, such as VETASSESS and AITSL, are now issuing through the platform, recognising that, for many learners, professional assessments and statutory recognition are as critical as academic awards. Increasingly, these records sit side by side and are accessed through a single, trusted network.
A standout milestone this year has been the partnership with the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC). VTAC’s integration with My eQuals means that 45,000 Victorian students received their official ATAR and International Baccalaureate statements digitally through the platform, streamlining access to these key academic credentials and embedding them within the broader learner record ecosystem. This move not only supports a fully digital experience for students but also reinforces My eQuals' role in connecting qualifications from secondary study through to higher and vocational pathways.
Recognition by professional bodies and regulatory organisations has continued to deepen alongside this growth. Organisations such as Chartered Accountants ANZ, and the New South Wales Education Standards Authority (NESA) are among many that explicitly reference My eQuals within their accreditation and assessment processes. These references reflect a broader pattern of reliance across professional and regulatory settings, where My eQuals is treated as the trusted source for receiving and verifying official applicant records.
Institutions themselves have long made similar choices. Since the early rollout of My eQuals in 2017 and 2018, universities across Australia and New Zealand have directed graduates, employers, and third parties to the platform as the authoritative source for certified digital documents and qualification verification. Over time, this has reinforced My eQuals not as an optional layer, but as a recognised extension of the institutional record itself.
3.6 Million User Accounts
This collective confidence is reflected in another milestone reached this year: more than 3.6 million user accounts now exist on the network. The number matters less as a headline than as a signal of habit. Learners expect their credentials to be there. Employers expect to receive them from there. Institutions expect them to be trusted.
The credential landscape will always include a range of systems and approaches, shaped by different needs and contexts. What has become clear over time, however, is the value of a shared network that institutions and organisations recognise. The strength of My eQuals lies not in any single feature, but in the accumulated trust of the network itself and in the familiarity of a brand people already recognise when credentials truly matter.
At the end of 2025, My eQuals is no longer defined by any single sector. It is now a shared network supporting higher education, vocational education, and professional bodies that deliver qualifications and certifications essential to professional practice. That position was not achieved quickly, nor by accident. It has been built through alignment, consistency, and a clear commitment to what constitutes an official record.
As the year closes, the clearest signal of progress is not any individual milestone, but the way My eQuals is now described. Less as a product, more as infrastructure. When credentials matter, and trust is required, My eQuals is what the region increasingly turns to.
That position has been carefully earned - and it provides a strong foundation for what comes next.