Resources

Guides to issuing and verifying certificates

Practical, sourced guides for the schools that grant certificates, the people who check them, and the graduates who carry them.

A certificate is only worth what the person reading it can confirm. These guides cover both ends of that exchange: how a school, academy or training centre issues certificates that can be checked years later, and how an employer, an admissions office or a graduate checks one today.

Each guide cites the laws, standards and official services it relies on, so you can follow every claim back to its source.

Issuing certificates

For school directors, registrars and training coordinators: how to issue certificates people can check, what to print on them, and how long to keep the records behind them.

Verification and fraud

For HR teams, admissions offices and anyone handed a diploma: how to confirm it is genuine, how fakes are made, and what a digital signature does and does not prove.

Digital credentials and where they go

For graduates and the people who help them: what a verifiable credential is, how it differs from a PDF, and how to put one where an employer will see it.