The more things change, the more they stay the same. What does that even mean? In this case, it means that the Ministry of Education of China has once again shifted the priorities of some of its higher education organizations, and the verification services that we use have now made some changes. For over a decade, the China Academic Degrees and Graduate Education Development Center (CDGDC) has administered the verification of Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral degree certificates in China through its http://www.chinadegrees.cn website. At the same time, transcripts and other records were verified by the China Higher Education Student Information...

In September, Transcript Research had the good fortune to co-present with AACRAO to deliver a webinar on Digital Documents and International Admissions which is online if you missed out on in then. Earlier in the month, we had written a little bit about it for the AACRAO Connect, and you check that out here. The excitement around those, and our earlier webinar on an Introduction to Digital Records for the TAICEP At Your Desk series means we have spent the better part of six months thinking intensively about digital documents. So we wrote an epub! You can get the whole...

Long time no see, friends! We've been so caught up in all the chaos of the world during the pandemic that we haven't taken a step back to just check in with everybody. We hope you're doing as well as can be expected while we're all still anxiously awaiting a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine.We hope you've been keeping busy to distract yourselves. We've also been very busy. Helping international students apply for university admissions. Assisting immigrants who want to come to or stay in the US. Aiding employers and HR offices in making sure they're interviewing qualified candidates. Creating...

  I hope you're adjusting to the new normal. I hate the slew of emails about "these trying times" or trying to tiptoe around the global pandemic that's upended everything from how we celebrate birthdays to how we grocery shop to how we work and learn and connect with family. Some of it has been a rousing success, while others have been a work in progress that hopefully gets refined as time goes by, but that's why we're a community: so we can learn from each other and lean on each other. Transcript Research has been busy! We're happy that...

Transcript Research is super proud to be spearheading a two-part series for the TAICEP At Your Desk free webinars for international educators, credentials evaluators, and admissions professionals during to help during the Covid-19 pandemic. This Thursday (May 7th), we're presenting on electronic verification. We'll be covering such varied methodologies as leaving examination results checkers to QR codes to blockchain degree verification and more. Register here: https://www.taicep.org/taiceporgwp/event/taicep-at-your-desk-conversation-series-electronic-verification-tips-and-tricks/?instance_id=170Next Thursday (May 14th), our focus will be on digital student data services that allow students or third party recipients to access a national database to receive a student's entire educational record. Register here: https://www.taicep.org/taiceporgwp/event/taicep-at-your-desk-introduction-to-digital-records/?instance_id=171We hope...