CR80News | Europe moving toward standard, contactless student ID

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

If Eugene McKenna at Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland has his way, in the not too distant future one identification card is all students will need to access services at most European institutions of higher learning.

As McKenna, chief executive of campus services, explains, today a student who wants to transfer from one university to another has to carry with him “a folder containing all his academic credits and qualifications.”

That’s about to change. With the pilot program that’s ramping up, one student card is all that’s necessary. “It’ll be a student’s secure key to access the information on the server, which will be common to all universities,” says McKenna, who has been one of the driving forces behind this project.

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