identification checks for pupils
identification checks for pupils
As discussed in the previous blog on ID checks on pupils and exams an how schools have used their long relationship with the parents and pupils as a form of implicate ID checks. Especially for secondary school pupils doing their GCSEs and A levels. As exams become more popular being taken outside of school as online learning providers improve plus the inevitable resits, the long term relationship with the pupil and parent is not cultivated like it once was.
Where we are now: The Government have a graded level of what ID is suitable for. The higher the grade the more powerful the ID document. Coupled together with more than one it is a pretty comprehensive form of id especially when you have a photo to work with. How do other education organisations deal with identification checks for pupils
Universities have large volume of pupils and students in big halls. With only a small or fractional relationship with their students. When they have exams their protocol for identification checks looks similar to this:
University Student ID cards Photo ID Cards Face coverings are asked to be removed. ID left on the desk Clearly universities have older students and the whole system is supported by the University ID card. Perhaps school and college ID cards are going to be a suitable compromise for pupils who are sitting A levels and GCSEs . This school ID card solves the challenge of identification checks for pupils when one doesn’t have a photo ID like so many teenagers who are taking GCSES and A levels.
Alternatively and perhaps far reaching as discussed on a previous blog, a mixture of blockchain, bar code and photo technology ads to a mix of ledger and ID that solves the certainty of the right pupil for the right exams. Other industries have new and innovative ways to tackle the threat of fraud. There are property id checks for property transactions that lawyers and para legals use.
Up until recently solicitors had to do checks themselves. Adding to the high workload that solicitors had to do along with the other more prescient work around doing the transaction services. This has parallels to exam officers. Firms like Thirdfort have gone some way in improving around the solicitors Id responsibilities for individuals involved in property transaction. As they have used online photo ID checking coupled with bank account checks to give proof the person is who they say they are with the funds they say they have.
No doubt as exams begin to get outsourced, the ID check for pupils who becoming increasingly more important.