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Online Verification of Latin American Degrees, Programs, and Institutions
Presenters
Carlos Monroy
Quality Assurance Manager, World Education Services
Aleksander Morawski
Director of Evaluation Services, Foreign Credits Inc.
Maria Morawski
Evaluator, Educational Credential Evaluators
Agenda
PART I: Introduction, Goals and Context
PART II: Verification of Degree Conferral
PART III: Institution and Program Recognition
PART IV: Q & A
Carlos Monroy
Quality Assurance Manager, World Education Services
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Learning Objectives
▪ Identify and learn about the use of innovative online resources to verify degree conferral from designated Latin American countries.
▪ Examine official online resources from selected Latin American countries to determine institution and programmatic accreditation.
▪ Describe challenges and best practices in online verification of degrees, institutions, and programs from Latin America.
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Why is Online Verification Relevant for International Enrollment Management?
▪ Key Indicator of Legitimacy:
• Confirms degree conferral.
• Helps prevent and identify fraud.
• Ensures that the institution and/or program(s) meet designated standards of quality.
▪ Facilitates recognition of study:
• Administrative efficiency/fast resolution.
• Reliable and authoritative sources.
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International Students: Authentication and Fraud
▪ Academic fraud is a threat to society as a whole.
▪ Falsified and fraudulent documents are long standing problems.
▪ Advances in technology facilitate fraud and falsification.
▪ Falsification and omission of information from international students can be difficult to identify.
▪ BUT, online verification is fast, efficient, and reliable method to identify fraud.
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Types of Fraudulent Documents
Bogus:Issued by an institution with no proper recognition and no academic component
▪ Fake Institutions
▪ Diploma/Degree Mills
Forged:Issued by or seemingly issued by a legitimate institution
▪ Imitations/Replicas
▪ Altered Copies
▪ Altered Originals
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Identification and Verification of Prospective Fraudulent Documents
Have You Identified FraudulentDocuments in the Admission Process?
Do You Verify SuspectedFraudulet Documents?
Have You Verified Documents Online?
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45%
20%
35%
Do You Verify Suspected Fraudulet Documents?
Identification and Verification of Prospective Fraudulent Documents
47%
24%
29%
Have You Identified Fraudulent Documents: Admission Process?
Yes No
N/A
171 surveyed 185 surveyed
Source: WES Survey: How to obtain international credentials for graduate admissions, May 12, 2017
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Identifying Fraudulent Documents Without Online Verification
Unusual format
Inconsistent typeface elements
Spelling errors
Evidence of revisions
Colored photocopy
Misaligned lines, words, numbers
No official stamps or seals
Fabricated stamps or seals
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Some Latin American Fabrications Are Not Hard to Identify
▪ Discrepancies
▪ Inconsistent typeface
▪ Misspellings
▪ Inconsistent Format
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Some Latin American Fabrications Are Not Hard to Identify
All text circled in red is either a misspelling or a discrepancy
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Newer Forgeries Are More Difficult to Identify
Onlineverification:
▪ Fast
▪ Authoritative
▪ ReliableCédula
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Fighting Academic Fraud and Corruption
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Aleksander Morawski
Director of Evaluation Services, Foreign Credits Inc
Verifying Degree Conferral
• + Confirms award of degree/credential from primary or semi-primary source
• + Affirms student identity
• + Can confirm professional qualification
• - Does not always confirm subjects or curriculum
• - Does not confirm performance or grades
• - Limited data or optional to student
When tools for confirming degree conferral exist, it is imperative to use them for efficient and effective credential evaluation
Mexico
• Registro Nacional de Profesionistas – National Register of Professionals
• Register of qualifications which allow practice of professions
• Required for employment, not required for graduation
Cedula = #######
• Seven numbers, no letters
http://www.buholegal.com/consultasep/
SEP Alternative Search site:
Results:
Practical Tips for Mexico verification
1. A cedula is not automatically given to every graduate
2. You can search by Cedula number or name
3. If searching by name, start with the general name, and search the list
4. Vocational, undergraduate and graduate
5. No performance information available
Ecuador
• Ministerio de Educación – Primary and secondary education• Contains records from dating back to 1985
• Consejo de Educación Superior - Post-secondary• Secretaría de Educación Superior, Ciencia, Tecnología e
Innovación (SENESCYT)
http://www.senescyt.gob.ec/consulta-titulos-web/faces/vista/consulta/consulta.xhtml
Name OR Cédula/Passport number
Post-secondary
XXXXXXXXXX
Identification number on transcript, not on diploma
Ingeniera En Petroleo, Escuela Superior Politecnica Del Litoral, Registered in 2003
Secondary
http://servicios.educacion.gob.ec/titulacion25-web/faces/paginas/consulta-titulos-refrendados.xhtml
Search by identification number or by name, even partial name
Peru
• Post-secondary - Superintendencia Nacional de Educación Superior Universitaria (SUNEDU)• Registro de Grados y Títulos
• Registration is optional, used for professional purposes
• Allows you to see all the applicant’s qualifications
http://www.sunedu.gob.pe/grados-y-titulos/registro-de-grados-y-titulos/
Front
Reverse
Results!
Chile
• Ministerio de Educación• Verifies certificates and documents issued by the
ministry
• Reproduces the entire document, including grades!
• Certificate verification has an expiration date, but students can easily request replacements
• University websites • Verify degree conferral
• Records stored longer than Ministry
http://certificados.mineduc.cl/certificados-web/mvc/validar/ingresarCodigo
Submitted
Verified
https://siga3.inacap.cl/verificacioncertificados/ValidaCertificado.aspx
Universidad Tecnológica de Chile INACAP
Results!
Maria Morawski
Evaluator, Educational Credential Evaluators
Institution and Program Recognition
WHAT IS MEANT BY RECOGNITION?KEY IDEAS AND FUNDAMENTAL CHARACTERISTICS
• Institution has the authority to award degrees/credentials that merit “universal” reciprocal recognition by other educational institutions with the same type of authority in the same country.
• Institutions achieve it by going through a process or system designed to regulate numerous aspects of higher education. The goal of this system or process is to ensure quality in the context of higher education degree programs.
• Individual courses in a degree program offered by a recognized institution merit transfer of credit or exemption from requirements when a student enrolls in a degree program at another educational institution in the same country that shares the same form of recognition.
BrazilMinistério da Educação
e-MEC
This national website can be used to research both undergraduate and some
graduate level programs in public and private
institutions in Brazil. This type of resource is
essential when dealing with programmatic
recognition.
http://emec.mec.gov.br/Hint: Go straight to the Consulta Textual tab.
e-MEC Institutional Search and Results
BrazilCoordenação de
Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior
(CAPES)
CAPES, a public foundation started in 1951, works under the
Ministry of Higher Education. They are currently involved in the Ciência sem Fronteiras (Science
without Borders) scholarship program. They also maintain lists of recognized graduate programs,
including various mestrado and doutorado programs via their
Platforma Sucupira.
https://sucupira.capes.gov.br/sucupira/public/consultas/coleta/programa/listaPrograma.jsf?acao=pesquisarRegiao
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ColombiaMinisterio de Educación
Nacional
Buscando Colegio
This database can be used to look up the recognition status of individual schools. It is advisable to figure out the Department and City from your docs, as the name search
alone is not reliable.
http://sineb.mineducacion.gov.co/bcol/app
Does the school check out?
Which search terms would you use?
ColombiaMinisterio de Educación
NacionalSistema Nacional de
Información de EducaciónSuperior (SNIES)
Since Colombia has programmatic recognition, it is
important to know which programs are recognized by the ministry. While students tend to use this database via individual program searches, we usually already know about a certain program at a particular school through our credentials. So the institutional search is a better
place to start.
http://www.mineducacion.gov.co/sistemasdeinformacion/1735/w3-propertyname-2672.html
SNIES Search and Results
ArgentinaComisión Nacional de
Evaluación y Acreditación
Universitaria (CONEAU)
http://www.coneau.gob.ar/CONEAU/
ArgentinaDirección Nacional de Gestión Universitaria
(Sicer) SistemaInformático de Certificaciones
http://sicer.siu.edu.ar/consulta.php
Database of university diplomas and
certificados analíticos(transcripts) registered
since 2012.
VenezuelaMinisterio del Poder
Popular para la Educación
Universitaria, Ciencia y Tecnología
Libro de Oportunidades de
Estudios Universitarios (LOEU)
http://loeu.opsu.gob.ve/vistas/index.php#2
Database of University Education Institutions (public and private) by
Region or States.
Search by Region or State, and Type of Institution
• The Colombian government is working on a national database for degree verification. While the scope is currently unknown, their other online resources are high quality.
• Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, & Argentina are working together to develop a regional repository of degrees and graduates.
Looking Ahead!
Online Resources
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▪ ECE Connection – Country Resources: https://theconnection.ece.org/
▪ Foreign Credits: The Internet Can Be Your Friend, Online Tools in International Credential Evaluation: https://www.foreigncredits.com/resources/presentations/Online-Tools-Credential-Evaluation.pdf
▪ Classbase – Database of education system including lists of unrecognized institutions: www.classbase.com
▪ TAICEP – Verification Sources for Educational Documents: http://www.taicep.org/
▪ U.S. Department of Education- Diploma Mills and Accreditation: http://www2.ed.gov/students/prep/college/diplomamills/resources.html
▪ WENR, Academic Fraud, Corruption, and Implications for Credential Assessment https://wenr.wes.org/2017/12/academic-fraud-corruption-and-implications-for-credential-assessment
▪ WES Country Resources: https://applications.wes.org/country-resources/resources.asp
Online Resources
Q&A
Thank you!Carlos Monroycmonroy@wes.org
Aleksander Morawski amorawski@foreigncredits.com
Maria Morawskimmorawski@ece.org
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