How to check the authenticity of an ID by number. Diplomas and universities can be checked in a single register. Are the main difficulties in such little things?

home With the beginning of one state exam the number of visitors to the Federal database created by specialists from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM) is increasing. It is there that all information about the participants and the results of the Unified State Exam is received from the Testing Center of the Ministry of Education. From the MIEM database, university admissions committees obtain information not only about the scores scored by applicants, but also about many other things that, at first glance, are not related to the Unified State Exam. Our questions are answered by one of the database developers, deputy dean of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics of MIEM, member of the working group on conducting the Unified State Exam

Alexey PROTASOV.

- How many years has your database existed? Why have we never heard of a tender for its creation? There was no tender. There was a competition for research papers among universities. Our database was prepared by scientists from MIEM. See: if the university received a certificate of passing the Unified State Exam

, the admissions committee will want to verify its authenticity. It's the same with school certificates. An idea arose: to create a single database, like, say, in the traffic police, which checks car license plates. Everyone who has the right (primarily university admissions committees) will be able to conduct an examination of a certificate of passing the Unified State Exam or, for example, a school certificate. The latter turned out to be in demand: now, at the request of one of the regional education departments, we are adding information about invalid school certificates to our database... Previously, one of the departments of the Ministry of Education compiled lists of lost forms school certificates

and sent them to university admissions committees. The trouble is different - no one looked at this list in the selection committees. Are you sure your program won't suffer the same fate?

- Why didn’t such a database exist before?

In principle, such a service should exist wherever strict reporting documents are used (these are educational documents). But five years ago this would have been too expensive - there were not enough powerful servers. Now we can afford it.
Russia should have a database of educational documents. After all, what difficulties arise with the verification of higher education diplomas! For example, where does a personnel officer turn when he has suspicions about your diploma or academic degree received from an unknown university?..

- He must request the Higher Attestation Commission. But in general, personnel officers rarely do this...

That's it! You need to write to the Higher Attestation Commission a request: whether the diploma of a candidate or doctor of sciences was really issued. And wait several months for an answer. And the personnel officer needs to decide on the spot whether to hire a person or not. It’s another matter when a personnel officer or admissions officer sees all the information on a computer screen. With an online request, you can check three hundred or even a thousand education certificates at once. This is the opportunity that our database provides.

Unfortunately, today a person cannot be refused if he brings a false certificate to the admissions committee. That is, theoretically this should be done, but in practice it is never done...

Now universities have other ways to “wrap up” a person who brought a fake certificate to the university. And when we act according to the law, it will no longer be possible to use such methods.

But there is no law...

There is a law! Law “On Electronic and digital signature”, which was adopted two years ago. According to this law, “certification centers” with certified software must be created.

But the status of the education certificate database must be legally defined: if the presented education document turns out to be inauthentic, the university will be able to invite the bearer to go to court. If the “certification center” gave an incorrect conclusion, then you can sue it too. And that would be fair.

- What are the most common difficulties when collecting data on the Unified State Examination and can they interfere with the work of the database?

The federal certificate database has been operating for four years. In Unified State Exam time Every day we receive from the Testing Center and load current data into the database. The biggest difficulty is appeals.

For example, a graduate wrote an appeal against Unified State Exam decision. The results of his appeal may have influenced the results of other children who solved the same problems. This means that changes in many information in the database depend on the outcome of one appeal. This year, we are placing a checkbox next to the name of such a child: this means that before July 15, the final deadline for submitting results, the details of this applicant may change. A special article is distortion of first and last names. The child writes his name on one form as Natalia, then as Natalia. The computer perceives Natalia and Natalia as two completely different people. And there are inconsistencies: the same applicant has results in mathematics, but no results in physics. The key is broken, the database refuses to load. That is why we had a very difficult time in the first year of the base’s existence.

- Are the main difficulties in such little things?

We even had to rework the database so that it would issue for one person not one, but two or three certificates of passing the Unified State Exam. According to the law, there must be only one certificate, but a child should not suffer because of his mistakes! In fact, in order to avoid such misunderstandings, children must be registered before the start of the Unified State Exam. We explained this from the first year of the existence of the unified state exam. The graduate must bring his data in advance, back in March-April, certified by the school director. True, according to my observations, after a number of mistakes, thanks to the Unified State Exam, people begin to be more or less meaningful about what they write and sign. Due to the Unified State Exam it increases information culture population. This is a 100% positive effect.

- What else could your database be used for?

Databases (federal and regional) collect very interesting information. When a graduate has passed the Unified State Exam, his annual grade, certificate grade and Unified State Exam grade remain in the database. In the regions, we are asked to collect information about the child’s learning conditions at school: what his major was, who taught him, what textbook he used, the length of service of his teachers, detailed information about teachers. Based on this order, we made a special format - it collects information tied to a specific graduate: a student and his teacher, a student and his textbook. Through these simple data you can understand a lot: for example, understand the problem of teacher migration. But this information had to be collected regardless of the Unified State Examination.

After reading the entire article, you can find out everything possible ways how to check whether a diploma is in the registry online and without unnecessary fuss.

Especially for convenient use and to effectively combat fake diplomas purchased from scammers, the Federal Register of Information with document data was created. Using this free service is much faster and more effective than the traditional method. The latter consists of a request to the register of diplomas of the universities in which the document was received.

Following example Western countries in 2013 it was adopted at the state level correct solution on the organization of a unified register of graduates of secondary and higher institutions, according to which one can check the registration of a diploma in it and find out its authenticity.

To create a complete unified system, back in 2009, the official website of the Federal Service for Supervision of Education and Science began accumulating information about diplomas of higher and secondary education, academic degrees and scientific titles, and Unified State Examination certificates. Thanks to this, the most extensive database of diploma authenticity in the country has been formed.

According to the creators of the database, the lower time limit for collecting information was 1960, and new data from documents appears every day to this day. Since 2013, the diploma verification database has been open free of charge for verification both by regulatory authorities and upon request for all individuals.

At the time of launch, information about more than two million data was added to the register of diploma numbers. In 2016, the amount of information on educational documents more than doubled and, according to information as of November 13, 2016, there were 6,999,330 documents in the register.

According to official data presented on their website, by 2023 the register of educational diplomas should be replenished with absolutely everyone educational documents graduates received since 1992 inclusive.

How to check the authenticity of a diploma in the registry

To check a diploma of education in the database on the website of the Russian education supervision (Rosobrnadzor), you need to know not only the diploma number, but also other information about the recipient of the document. Therefore, it is impossible to verify a diploma by number without having additional data. This is done in order not to disclose confidential information.

Without the document in hand it will be impossible to fill out special form and send a request for verification to the diploma verification website. Only if the conditions for accurately filling out the details specified on the document form are met will a correct analysis of the database be possible. Thanks to this, confidential data will remain safe from ill-wishers.

Step-by-step instructions for checking your diploma in the registry

Instructions:

Step 2. We find and click on the section “Federal Register of State Documents on Education, Academic Degrees and Academic Titles (FRDO).”

Step 3. In the register you can find important information from Rosobnadzor on current legislation, as well as frequently asked questions about working with the registry. To check your diploma, click “Check document information”.

Step 4. Fill in the required search fields and click “Check for availability of information in the FDDO.”

What data is needed to search for information?

In a special form on the official website you will need to enter the following data:

• Level of education (higher or secondary);
• Name educational institution and its code according to the All-Russian Classifier;
• Last name, first name and patronymic of the diploma recipient;
• State series and number of the form on which the document was issued;
• The date of its issue.

Extended diploma verification

On the Rosobrnadzor website, it is also possible to check the authenticity of a diploma through an advanced search. Here you will need to enter data that is not mandatory, but required to be filled out. This will help avoid mistakes and make it easier for the system to search through a huge information base. You will need to enter information such as:

• Title of the document (diploma, certificate);
• Document status (original, duplicate or lost);
• Registration number of the document (located under the inscription Diploma);
• Qualification (bachelor, master, specialist);
• Specialty (as indicated in the diploma);
• Year of ending educational institution.

Test results

Verification of the authenticity of Rosobrnadzor diploma is fully automated and, if the entered data matches, the site will quickly return a positive result. New documents are added to the electronic list around the clock and entered into the database no later than sixty days from the date of their official issue.

However, it is impossible to add a diploma to the register on your own. To add information, you can only send a request to the organization that issued your educational document. The register of higher education diplomas can only be supplemented by the educational institution itself.

It should be taken into account that this type data analysis does not provide a one hundred percent guarantee of the information provided. This is stated in an additional footnote at the end of the check, because some errors in data entry or inaccuracies in their processing cannot be ruled out.

If there is no information when processing a request such as “check secondary school diploma” vocational education“Perhaps the document is not a fake. There is a possibility that it was received quite recently and has not yet been entered into the register of secondary education diplomas.

Registry restrictions you need to be aware of

The register includes a huge amount of information about higher education. However, verification of a higher education diploma is not possible for documents issued in government institutions, located in the department of the Federal Security Service, the Federal Security Service and the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Data about these diplomas is not entered into the database, so the activities of these institutions and scientific organizations is a state secret and is protected by the relevant authorities. Therefore, for those who received their education in such places, it will be impossible to check the authenticity of the higher education diploma number.

Thus, in Russia for several years there has been a unified information database of issued documents on obtaining education. It will not be difficult for employers or federal services to check the authenticity of the diploma number in the registry. And it is now increasingly difficult for owners of fake documents to find work. In order to check the accuracy of the education documents submitted to them, you need to know full information, and not just the diploma number.

How to check the authenticity of a diploma of higher and secondary education in the registry updated: February 15, 2019 by: Scientific Articles.Ru

The need to check the authenticity of a diploma by number or complete data most often arises among large employers, but often those who hire a child’s tutor, nanny, or individual trainer also want to protect themselves from incompetence. Fake documents on higher education at any level are offered in transitions, on the Internet, and even in universities. It would be foolish to believe that potential employers live on another planet or always cross the road in the wrong place, and visit the Network solely to advertise a vacancy, so it would never occur to them to check the authenticity of the diploma of a 19-year-old “experienced specialist”, two years ago, he graduated from the master's program, or even graduate school at Moscow State University. Moreover, today there is such an opportunity.

What is the unified state register of diplomas

If previously only government agencies and enterprises could easily check a diploma for authenticity defense complex and law enforcement agencies, today this can be done by commercial organizations and even individuals.

In order to provide employers with highly reliable information about the qualifications of candidates, as well as in order to suppress the illegal trade in university degrees and fight corruption, since 2013, a register of higher education diplomas has been available on the Rosobrnadzor website absolutely free of charge. By checking it, you can quickly verify the validity of the document, which indicates that it was issued by any institute, university or any academy of the Russian Federation.

Rosobrnadzor began collecting data on diplomas issued by universities and colleges, on the awarding of scientific titles and degrees, and even on the issuance of Unified State Examination certificates in 2012. The result of active work was an extensive information base - FRDO (federal register of documents on education, qualifications and training), which initially included information about two million state diplomas of higher vocational education that were issued to university graduates during 2010-2011.

According to government decree No. 729, all educational organizations VPOs are required to provide information for a unified register, so the database is systematically expanding. Currently, data is being entered into it until 2009; in the near future (the target date is by 2023), it will be possible to verify the authenticity of a higher education diploma issued since 1992 inclusive. Electronic list is replenished around the clock; as of December 26, 2017, the state register already contained information about 12,547,326 documents; data on new diplomas enters the system no later than 60 days from the date of issue.

How to check the authenticity of a diploma in the Unified Register of the Russian Federation

To check the authenticity of a diploma online, you need to:

It is possible that errors were made when filling out or the data has not yet been entered.

Go to the feedback form through the main page of the Rosobrnadzor website or via this link.

Other ways to check the authenticity of a diploma

According to the established procedure, when applying for a job in government agencies, law enforcement agencies, organizations and enterprises related to state secrets and security, a request from the employer must be sent to the university, which is obliged to provide all the information of interest to the sender. But what to do if representatives of a commercial organization have doubts about the originality of the candidate’s educational documents or need to check a diploma “originally from the USSR” or issued after its collapse - in the 90s and 2000s?

Formal written request

Exit is an official request to the university, which is made with the written consent of the applicant. It is attached to the form and must comply with the requirements of the law on personal data and the Labor Code.

The letter states:

1. Full name of the graduate whose document is being checked.
2. Series, diploma number.
3. Registration number.
4. Date of issue.

A request addressed to the vice-rector or rector is made on letterhead, certified by the seal of the institution, and is registered in outgoing documents.

Sample request for authenticity of diploma

It will take about a month to verify using such a request. If an educational institution refuses to provide information - by law it is not obliged to respond even to officially registered letters from private commercial enterprises - or the university has closed and there is no legal successor, then you can inquire directly about the authenticity of the diploma from Rosobrnadzor.

If the applicant does not give voluntary informed consent to check information about himself, a petition can be sent to the university or institute to confirm or, conversely, refute the fact of issuing a diploma of a specific series and number without reference to the name and surname of the secretive candidate. The response will also not include the passport details of the refusenik, but the university will write whether the diploma was issued with the indicated number and series.

An example of confirmation of a candidate’s consent to verification

Reference

Not all educational institutions, especially private ones, are willing to meet employers halfway and provide this kind of information, but the university is obliged to confirm the authenticity of the diploma when the graduate himself applies to the alma mater. If verification is in the interests of the person being verified, the procedure can be accelerated by asking the potential employee to present an official certificate certified by the rector.

University website

Most higher educational institutions create their own online database of graduates, through which you can almost always “check” educational documents by finding the corresponding section on the university website, where it is easy to check the authenticity of the diploma number. If the document was actually issued, then information about its owner is displayed: last name, first name, patronymic, terms of study, faculty, etc.

On the official website of St. Petersburg University, in the “SPbU Diploma” subsection of the “For Employers” block, this can be done using a QR code, which has been included in all of its diplomas since 2017.

Online, employers can not only check the authenticity of a diploma, but also learn about the applicant’s achievements during his studies.

If there is no information on university websites, this does not mean that the graduate is fake: errors due to imperfections cannot be ruled out electronic system, but often this is evidence that university graduation documents were not issued or were obtained illegally, in other words, purchased at a reasonable price.

Alternative Methods

All of them are akin to the methods of work of a private investigator or an experienced fortune teller, but can bring more or less revealing results when the diploma number is unknown.

Social network

The data indicated in the candidate’s profile, of course, is not a 100% guarantee of the authenticity of his diploma, but only an indirect argument in favor. Active users of social networks are aware that the next step of the HR manager after getting acquainted with the resume is to study the applicant’s page on VKontakte, Facebook, Odnoklassniki, etc., therefore they can enter information into the virtual application form corresponding to the information contained in the fake diploma

A list of friends is more suitable as confirmation: if it contains many graduates of the same university whose diploma the candidate presented, most likely he really graduated from it. But again, this is not a fact: this does not prove that the applicant successfully completed his studies, and was not expelled, say, from his final year, without having defended himself. Such an epic failure does not prevent him from supporting a good relationship with ex-classmates or former classmates.

Conversation

Requires certain preparation from the interviewer. First, you need to collect information about the faculty, teachers, and the intricacies of the training procedure in order to be able to compare it with the answers of the future employee to questions about the university, which are asked solely for the purpose of verifying the authenticity of the diploma, and not to support highly intellectual small talk. A student who has honestly and diligently studied for a bachelor’s degree for at least four years knows the institute inside and out and to the fullest. tricky questions will answer without hesitation.

Another non-standard option to determine the authenticity of a diploma is to talk (not necessarily in person, you can also by phone) with the methodologist of the department or faculty, asking him to give an oral description of the graduate or to obtain consent to send a written one in the near future. If such a student is not remembered and is not found on the lists, this is a serious reason to doubt and think, was there a boy?

If concerns are serious, it is better to resort to more reliable methods: an official request, verification of a diploma by number in the state registry, or an email to Rosobrnadzor.

But even the most effective method will not help confirm the authenticity of a higher education diploma issued to a graduate of departmental universities - institutes, universities and academies of the federal security, security, and foreign intelligence services. In other cases, accessible and free ways to check the authenticity of a diploma guarantee almost one hundred percent success.

Svetlana KIRILLOVA

School certificate: authentication check

A database is being created in Russia where you can check any educational document

With the start of the Unified State Exam, the number of visitors to the Federal Database, created by specialists from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Engineering (MIEM), is increasing. It is there that all information about the participants and the results of the Unified State Exam is received from the Testing Center of the Ministry of Education. From the MIEM database, university admissions committees obtain information not only about the scores scored by applicants, but also about many other things that, at first glance, are not related to the Unified State Exam.
Our questions are answered by one of the database developers, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Applied Mathematics at MIEM, member of the working group for the Unified State Exam Alexey PROTASOV.

– How many years has your database existed? Why have we never heard of a tender for its creation?
- There was no tender. There was a competition for research papers among universities. Our database was prepared by scientists from MIEM. Look: if a university has received a certificate of passing the Unified State Exam, the admissions committee will want to check its authenticity. It's the same with school certificates. An idea arose: to create a single database, like, say, in the traffic police, which checks car license plates. Everyone who has the right (primarily university admissions committees) will be able to conduct an examination of a certificate of passing the Unified State Exam or, for example, a school certificate.

The latter turned out to be in demand: now, at the request of one of the regional education departments, we are adding information about invalid school certificates to our database...
– Previously, one of the departments of the Ministry of Education compiled lists of lost school certificate forms and sent them to the admissions committees of universities. The trouble is different - no one looked at this list in the selection committees.

Are you sure your program won't suffer the same fate?
– Previously, admissions officers had to read a long list received from the ministry and compare the numbers in it with the numbers of accepted certificates. Now it’s enough to make one file - after all, university admissions offices always have their own applicant registration program - and transfer it to us via computer. The file will go into the database, and in two to three minutes customers will receive a response. For example, these certificates are genuine, but this one is listed as lost...
– Why didn’t such a database exist before?

– In principle, such a service should exist wherever strict reporting documents are used (these are educational documents). But five years ago this would have been too expensive - there weren’t enough powerful servers. Now we can afford it.
- That's it! You need to write to the Higher Attestation Commission a request: whether the diploma of a candidate or doctor of sciences was really issued. And wait several months for an answer. And the personnel officer needs to decide on the spot whether to hire a person or not. It’s another matter when a personnel officer or admissions officer sees all the information on a computer screen. With an online request, you can check three hundred or even a thousand education certificates at once. This is the opportunity that our database provides.

“Unfortunately, today a person cannot be refused if he brings a false certificate to the admissions committee. That is, theoretically this should be done, but in practice it is never done...
– Now universities have other ways to “wrap up” a person who brought a fake certificate to the university. And when we act according to the law, it will no longer be possible to use such methods.

- But there is no law...
- There is a law! The Law “On Electronic and Digital Signatures”, which was adopted two years ago. According to this law, “certification centers” with certified software must be created.
But the status of the education certificate database must be legally defined: if the presented education document turns out to be inauthentic, the university will be able to invite the bearer to go to court. If the “certification center” gave an incorrect conclusion, then you can sue it too. And that would be fair.

– What are the most common difficulties in collecting data on the Unified State Examination and can they interfere with the work of the database?
– The federal certificate database has been operating for four years. During the Unified State Exam, we receive up-to-date data from the Testing Center every day and load it into the database. The biggest difficulty is appeals.
For example, a graduate wrote an appeal against the Unified State Examination decision. The results of his appeal may have influenced the results of other children who solved the same problems. This means that changes in many information in the database depend on the outcome of one appeal.

This year, we are placing a checkbox next to the name of such a child: this means that before July 15, the final deadline for submitting results, the details of this applicant may change.
A special article is distortion of first and last names.

The child writes his name on one form as Natalia, then as Natalia. The computer perceives Natalia and Natalia as two completely different people. And there are inconsistencies: the same applicant has results in mathematics, but no results in physics. The key is broken, the database refuses to load. That is why we had a very difficult time in the first year of the base’s existence.
– Are the main difficulties in such little things?

– We even had to rework the database so that it would issue for one person not one, but two or three certificates of passing the Unified State Exam. According to the law, there must be only one certificate, but a child should not suffer because of his mistakes!

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