When I asked the dean of a renown Business School in London: "Do higher education institutions have a reasonably precise sense of the impact of their courses on the labour market? " The answer was "We don't". Without reliable real-time data today, none of us can improve services or predict future strategies. Both higher education and employers need digital systems to granularly track the skills students earn and the combined skills they have developed. Many employers including Google and IBM are moving away from graduate-based hiring and building their own Academies becoming new forms of "learning hubs" that provide valuable and measurable skills. COVID-19 has accelerated the pressure for higher-education institutions to demonstrate the added value of their offer. Those that will add to their online courses a traceable and secure credential, will expand the reach of their brands, give a spendable asset to their students, and most importantly, will provide themselves with a reliable source of real-time information over demand and supply of skills.

I am often asked how learning and development strategies would benefit of immutable credentials, well it's all about preparing the workforce to be future-proof, creating the condition to make the board high-level vision possible.By setting the infrastructure to track and tracing skills and employees' achievements, the company is able to identify potential skills-gaps and work on such gaps in advance building skills internally or hiring efficiently. You may ask why should we use blockchain-based proofs to achieve the goal and not any other kind of badge or digital credential, the reason is that on the blockchain, an information becomes immutable and traceable for ever. When you build your strategies, you want to rely on credible sources, to support your estimations and projections. Blockchain-based proofs give you the certainty that they have not been manipulated, you are able to build reliable models and projections from them.

We use blockchain technology only to secure anonymous proofs of credentials. Licensed partners of TiiQu can autonomously manage the process of creation, issuance and sending of blockchain-based proofs, in just five clicks. The advantages are the following: SECURITY AND PRIVACY: only the owner of a credential can share the proof allowing third parties to instantly verify the validity and veracity of such proof. In compliance with the principles expressed by the General Data protection Regulation (GDPR), none can access sensitive information. MINIMIZED FRAUD: the data saved on blockchain is immutable and cannot be altered. Companies will be able to significantly decrease costs typically associated with data security INSTANT VERIFICATION: TiiQu released an open source verifier that is accessible by everyone and enables the holder of a credential to check its veracity against the proof published by the issuer on-chain. This is a one-click process at zero cost.