Universities are feeling pressure to monitor and log student attendance. The pressure, however, is mounting not only from university administrators but the students themselves. As the access control debate intensifies so to do students’ concerns about privacy and data protection. Part and parcel to the privacy debate is the argument that the purpose of higher […]

Teachers in government schools in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, are threatening to strike in protest of the government’s proposal to introduce a biometric attendance system into the institutions. As reported in the Times of India, the state wants to implement the system to add accountability and discipline in a system where teachers routinely […]

A U.S. district judge in San Antonio has ruled in favor of the school district that has deployed student ID cards that contain RFID chips, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. John Jay High School is one of two in the district that’s testing the new name badges to automate attendance to […]

A Texas high school student who has refused to wear an RFID-equipped name badge on religious grounds is awaiting a decision on a request to make a temporary restraining order permanent. If the court order is issued, the student won’t have to wear the badge. San Antonio’s Northside Independent School District last month began requiring […]

Students aren’t the only ones who play hooky. Teachers are too, at least at India’s Delhi University. To combat this issue, the school is implementing a biometric system that will track attendance for both students and teachers. The teacher absenteeism problem has been going on for quite a while. Predictably, the move towards a biometric […]

The University of Alabama at Birmingham is getting ready to launch its ONE Card that consolidates an assortment of features including photo identification, physical access into buildings and parking, library services, meal plans, Blazer Bucks and time and attendance records. “UAB as a whole is going to save a considerable amount of money in this […]

AVISIAN Publishing is pleased to announce the release of the interactive version of the fall 2012 issue of Regarding ID. The interactive feature enables a miniature mode that you can thumb through as well as a full screen mode that allows you to read the magazine as if it were on the desk in front […]

Students at Ocean City High School in New Jersey will be swiping their student ID card next year as they enter school., which will create an electronic attendance record that will follow them throughout the school day. In each period, teachers will be able to check actual attendance against the record of which students should […]

Biometrics were supposed to come to Nashik, India this year, as all ashramshalas and tribal schools were to install the devices to record attendance for students, teachers, employees and officials. However, as the August 15 deadline approached, about ten percent of establishments still weren’t finished with the installation. As reported by the Times of India, […]

Grade school students in the Brazilian city, Vitoria da Conquista’s are using school uniforms embedded with RFID chips to alert parents if they’re not attending class, according to The Huffington Post. Th uniforms monitor children as they enter school premises, relaying information to a central computer, which sends out automated text messages to parents’ cell […]