Consenting
is Complicated
Following
is a gist of a news report that appeared in MINT ( 10 Sept 2016 ) :
Government
announces plan to digitize academic records
“ All
educational institutions, including universities, will implement the scheme. It
will be hugely beneficial for students,” the ( HRD
) minister said.
Degrees,
diplomas, mark
sheets, migration certificate, skill
certificate, etc., will be digitized and put in the national academic
depository ( NAD ).
Higher
education secretary said the depository will share students’ information with
anyone—like an employer or background screening firms—only after getting consent from a student. But
companies have been complaining about frauds in job applications, including
academic frauds, and because of the lack of a national system that can help
them verify academic records online by paying a nominal fee.
The NAD will authenticate records, eliminate the
menace of fake and forged awards without
flouting privacy.
The
ministry is looking to tag the academic
records with the Aadhaar number to
facilitate verification, e-KYC and
retrieval.
While educational
institutions will be registering the students data online, students can themselves log in to the NAD and
put their previous academic records by
linking their Aadhaar number and
fulfilling an e-KYC. "
Without doubt , an excellent
initiative
Issues to be considered :
# How exactly
will a jobseeker " GIVE CONSENT " to a prospective Employer ,
to take a look at his Mark Sheets / Certificates etc deposited online ( previous academic record ) ?
# Will employer (
to whom jobseeker has applied for a job ) , get to access " Current Academic Record " of the
applicant , without needing his " CONSENT
" ?
# How will these "
PREVIOUS academic record " , get " certified as
true " ?
Suggested Procedure :
# After registering and
uploading his " PREVIOUS academic record " in NAD , person uploading will need to click on a
button ( VERIFY ) , against the Name of
the College / University / Institution who he claims , has issued that Certificate
An E mail alert will go out
to that Institution to login and verify
( either as " TRUE " or as
" FALSE " )
# When so verified ( by
the concerned Institution ) , the concerned person will get an e mail alert ( either way )
# Thereafter , student
can access this NAD web page on his
mobile ( through a Mobile App ? ) and
show it to the prospective Employer , across
the table , during interview
May be he can SMS / E mail that page to the Employer
OTHER RELATED ISSUES :
If a person has applied for a
job ( by sending an email resume ) , should that not , constitute his " AUTOMATIC and IMPLIED CONSENT " to
the Employer to " ACCESS " his academic record online on NAD web site ? I think so
In that case , the
job-applicant can just include in his Resume
, a link to the relevant web page of NAD
site , which the recruiter can click . This will prove very convenient for overseas recruiters
But what about "
PUBLIC at LARGE " being able to " ACCESS " ( without
needing any EXPLICIT consent ) , the educational qualifications of ( say
) :
# Candidates
contesting all kinds of elections ( Lok Sabha / State Assemblies /
Municipalities / Panchayats )
# Government
Officers ( persons holding office of profit )
# Current Ministers
/ MPs / MLAs / Corporators / generally , all Public servants
# Consultants (
Doctors / Lawyers / Engineers etc )
The list can be quite
long !
And finally , what about
persons who just won't upload their past educational records ?
What can / should be done to
" motivate " them to upload ?
( since this is NOT mandatory )
Can they be prevented from
freely accessing such records of others , UNLESS
they have uploaded themselves ?
By requiring to " log in
" into NAD web site , using User ID
/ Password , which is issued ONLY AFTER
they have uploaded their own records ?
( I mean , their PAST records , since Universities / Edu
Institutions are mandated for the FUTURE records of everyone )
Question :
Is a person's Educational Record
, his own PRIVATE PROPERTY , or it
ought to be something in PUBLIC DOMAIN ?
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16 Sept 2016
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