Recruiters increasingly depend on service that aims to drive down degree fraud.
Prospects Hedd, the UK higher education system’s official qualification verification service, has reached the landmark of passing one million verifications for employers and education institutions.
The service was founded in 2011 and helps recruiters check if applicants have the qualifications they claim and if they attended the institutions that awarded them.
Verification requests are steadily increasing, year on year. Hedd currently checks more than 20,000 qualifications a month and it is predicted it will pass the 2 million verifications mark in less than three years.
