Qualification Checks & Verification Tools for Organisations in South Africa
Qualification Check is a credential verification platform built for scale.
Leading South African universities, background screening companies, and employers use our software to verify credentials directly from source, navigating the complex landscape of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) and global institutions.
At Qualification Check, we provide the certainty you need in an era of increasing credential fraud. Learn how you can improve admissions efficiency and automate your verification processes.
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Why South African Organisations Choose Our Platform
- Comprehensive Coverage (Matric & Tertiary): We streamline the verification of both National Senior Certificates (Matric) and higher education degrees, bridging the gap between Umalusi and university registries.
- POPIA Compliant: Our platform is built with data privacy at its core, ensuring all verifications meet the strict consent and privacy requirements of the Protection of Personal Information Act.
- Combat Credential Fraud: With the NQF Amendment Act making misrepresented qualifications a criminal offense, our direct-to-source checks provide the defensible evidence you need to protect your organisation.
- Verification for International Admissions: South African universities trust us to verify the qualifications of international applicants from the rest of Africa and beyond, ensuring only eligible students are enrolled.
- Seamless Integration: Our software integrates with your existing HR or student management systems, reducing the manual admin of checking against the National Learners’ Records Database (NLRD).
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Global Verification in South Africa
Global Verification is available around the clock, allowing applicants or recruiters to submit verification requests.
It supports you in confirming the documents that each university will require for verification, and takes account of local privacy laws.
Global Verification is backed by an operations team based across three continents, to manage relationships with universities in 20 languages and to ensure that checks are progressed effectively.
You can get a full understanding of your candidate’s qualifications, no matter where they graduated.
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Why use Qualification Check?
Qualification Check provides a truly global verification service, covering academic and professional awards from more than 55,000 institutions in 195 countries.
All verifications are provided in writing, timed and dated, by the primary source or issuing body, with a full audit trail.
Full reporting allows you to demonstrate due diligence to regulatory bodies and government immigration departments. Management information allows you to track turnaround times and manage your expenditure across countries and teams.
On-demand Verifications
We can provide global qualification checks 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Global Coverage
Verifying qualifications at over 50,000 institutions in 195 countries.
Secure & Confidential
SHA-256 encryption. GDPR compliant.
Speed & Efficiency
Fast responses and automation via direct integration.
Full Audit Trail
Electronic records for each individual transaction.
Save Resources
No need to chase verification requests via phone calls or emails.
Our Solutions
Global Verification
Our Global Verification solution provides global primary-source verification of academic and professional qualifications from over 550,000 institutions in 195+ countries.
For South African institutions, this means a single online portal to verify qualifications at scale, including both domestic and international qualifications held by incoming talent.
Global Verification Admissions Plus
Global Verification Admissions Plus is an integrated solution for South African universities recruiting international students. It combines digital identity verification, primary-source qualification checks, and reference checks to streamline the enrollment of students from key feeder markets, internationally and domestically.
I’m Verified Wallet
The I’m Verified Wallet enables verified credential portability. Candidates can store their verified degrees and certificates once and share them instantly with employers or recruiters, reducing the cost and time of repeated verifications.
Digital Identity Verification
Our Digital Identity Verification (DIDV) solution allows you to confidently verify a candidate’s identity using a three-step online verification process.
In a market where identity theft is a significant risk, our tool captures applicant data, validates Passports, and uses likeness tests to confirm the individual is who they say they are. Our DIDV tool helps to ensure that you remain compliant whilst improving operational efficiency.
AutoVerify
AutoVerify makes the verification process for recruitment and admissions teams stress-free. It automates the management of incoming verification requests, allowing your team to focus on strategic tasks rather than manual data entry.
What sectors does Qualification Check work with in the South Africa?
Higher Education
Higher education organisations and admissions teams use our platform to verify international credentials, prevent identity fraud, and maintain institutional integrity, all while streamlining their admissions processes and improving applicant experience through faster processing.
Healthcare and social services
Healthcare organisations use our software to verify qualifications and professional registrations for regulated roles, meeting compliance requirements with defensible primary-source evidence.
International background screeners and recruiters
Whether you operate as a background check company or a recruitment firm, our platform extends your capabilities with global credential verification. API integration means you can trigger education background checks and international verifications directly from your existing systems.
Professional Bodies & Regulators
Professional bodies integrate our verification check services to support licensing and registration processes with auditable evidence chains that demonstrate regulatory compliance.
Scale Your Credential Verification Operations In South Africa
Join organisations across South Africa using Qualification Check to ensure compliance, prevent fraud, and automate verification. Book a demo to see how we handle the complexities of the local and global education landscape.
Case studies
Qualification Check streamlines admissions at Cambridge Judge Business School
Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge is an internationally respected graduate management education in business. Ninety per cent of the post graduate students for the full-time MBA programme are from overseas.
CISI enhances membership enquiries process
CISI uses AutoVerify by Qualification Check to provide an automated verification service. AutoVerify receives all incoming requests for verification, checks them against CISI’s membership register, and then responds with a status of Verified or Not Verified.
Bloomsbury Institute
Bloomsbury Institute had an established admissions process for international students, that included thorough certificate and transcript checks, and a compliance interview to check the student was genuine.