The National Student Clearinghouse (a nonprofit formed in 1993) is the trusted source for and leading provider of higher education verifications and electronic education record exchanges, handling more than 700 million verification requests and 250 million education record exchanges annually.
CollegeNET, Inc. is a leading developer of web-based systems for higher education and nonprofit organizations, serving more than 1300 clients worldwide. The company helps improve efficiencies, reduce paper consumption and cut costs by providing advanced tools for managing resources, streamlining information, and better serving students and applicants.
Starting from October 2011, CHESICC began to carry out China College Student Satisfaction Survey to investigate students’ overall satisfaction, campus environment, campus life, educational quality, campus setting, and employment satisfaction, etc.
Digitalization of China higher education student information started in the early 1990s. With the rapid popularization of PC, universities developed student information management software, but only for off-line system. In the late 90s, with the development of internet, networking of applied system became a trend. E.g. MOE made an experimental online college admission test in Tianjin in 1999, and then expanded to nationwide.
Qualifications and Degrees: A Simplified Outline
In China higher education qualification certificate (including Zhuanke, undergraduate, master, and doctoral levels) registration, there is a whole-process dynamic management, beginning with admission records, going with freshmen student record registration, then with in-school student annual registration, and finally leading to qualification registration, in which each step should be based on the prior one.
China Education Expo 2013 opens in Beijing yesterday. As the guest country of honor, Spain has long been inferior to other European countries, such as UK, France and Germany, in appealing to international students.
In China, there are 40 million records for students in school, and all higher education institutions register students on CHESICC’s platform. Study record and qualification verification are provided in different forms, including personal review, individual verification, member verification, batch verification, and web service or XML.
Institutes under Ministry of Education of China have verified over 56,000 Higher-education Qualification Certificates in 2012, in which fake certificates were 3%.
In China, qualifications and degrees are two separate types of credentials represented by separate documents – Qualification Certificate and Degree Certificate respectively. Qualification, also named as diploma or graduation certificate, is a state-recognition of the holder’s education experience.
Chinese Graduate Student Entrance Examination is a unified concept of some examinations organized by education departments or admissions institutions to select graduate students, which is the necessary examination for being a graduate in China (except a small number of exam-free recommendation students), just like taking the College Entrance Examination to enter a university.
AACRAO 99th Annual Meeting was held in April 14-17, San Francisco. There were experts of more than 2,400 high schools and related institutions from 36 countries taking part in this annual meeting. China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center (CHESICC) was invited. The list of staff going for this visit includes: ManKaijie(Director of verification Department of CHESICC) and ChengWeixing (Director of imformation Department of CHESICC)
How to apply for universities easily? How to identify true or false qualifications? How to define the authenticity of overseas qualifications obtained by students? These headaches, for students, colleges and enterprises, are expected to be solved by cooperation and communication through global digital student data depositories. Digitized storage of student information has become a world trend.
The ten-year anniversary of CHSI website and official unveiling ceremony of English version of Online Verification System of HEQC was held in Beijing on October 29th. Du Yubo, deputy minister of Education and Lin Huiqing, minister assistant of Education attended the event and unveiled the English website.
What is qualification level? "Qualification level" refers to the academic experience people gain in their scientific and cultural studies or skill trainings at educational institutions. Students attain corresponding qualification levels depending on the levels of the school or training they have attended. Higher education qualification certificates (abbreviated as HEQC in the following), are state recognized evidences of their holders having received higher education.
In 2001 the Ministry of Education issued Interim Provisions on the Online Registration of Qualification Certificates of Higher Education Institutions (Jiaoxue [2001] 4): from 2001, the State begins to adopt the online registration of qualification certificates and any unregistered certificates shall not be recognized by the State; CHESICC was commissioned by the Ministry of Education to offer technical, transactional and online inquiry services related to the online registration, verification and recording of qualification certificates.
Commissioned by the Ministry of Education, CHESICC has established a national information database of student records and HEQCs for college students. By the end of 2011, the overall data has amounted to over 600 million, including:
The website is sponsored by China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center (CHESICC) and run by Student Information Consulting Services Ltd., a company held by CHESICC. With an integrated database of college admissions, student records, qualification certificates, employment information and student loans
China Higher Education Student Information and Career Center (CHESICC) is an institution directly under the Ministry of Education, specializing in college enrollments, student records, qualification certificates and employment information services for students of higher education institutions. Its predecessor was "National Career Center for College and University Students".