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How can a student prove that he speaks Japanese as well as he claims, without demonstrating it? Fujitsu Limited, Fujitsu’s research center, and Sony Global Education have begun a collaboration to test a solution for this. The two companies want to store education data in blockchain, reports ZDNet.

The two companies started Wednesday with a test, in cooperation with the educational institute Human Academy, which focuses on foreign students. The test is only aimed at students who want to study in Japan. Before this is possible, students must first take a course in the Nihongo Kentei language. The course is taught via Fujitsu’s Fisdom learning platform.

Digital certificate

Each student’s data, including study logs and grade information, is stored and managed as “non falsifiable data in a blockchain”, according to the companies. So it’s actually a certificate, but on a computer. Educational institutions can then check whether the language level of the student is indeed as high as the student claims, by looking at the certificate. As a result, there is no need to send a physical certificate.

“Human Academy, the educational institute that will accept and teach these foreign students, will be able to accurately assess the language level of individual students, based on this highly reliable data, by comparing the data on the certificate on the blockchain with educational certificates that these students have submitted,” says the companies.

The test lasts one month and ends on March 29th. The three companies are considering opening up the use of blockchain to cover study logs and figure information collected during the test. The steps taken by the companies after the first test are as yet unknown.

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