At participating elementary schools across Singapore, students will soon be able to make purchases with the touch of a finger thanks to a new biometric program from POSB Bank. The addition of biometrics will be a new feature added to the existing Smart Buddy program that enables students in the region to make purchases via smart wrist watches at participating POS terminals.

A convenience store on the campus of London’s Brunel University is now the the first retailer in the country to leverage finger vein biometrics for payments, after a new initiative has been launched to enable students to make purchases with the touch of a finger.

There could soon be another online ID vetting option for distance learning and exams from biometric software solutions provider, Biometric Signature ID. The company’s flagship product, Bio-Sig ID is designed to be a secure password and authentication tool that leverages a user’s unique pen strokes to create a biometric ID with their fingertip, stylus or mouse.

Biometric technology company, Zwipe, has partnered with London’s Rose Bruford College to overhaul the campus’ physical security needs by introducing a combination of biometric and contactless access control. The solution is a fingerprint activated contactless credential that works with both 125kHz and 13.56MHz infrastructures already in place on a campus.

Excelsior Springs High School just outside of Kansas City is now using fingerprint readers to help support a new education format that lets students plot their own daily schedules.

The early signs are positive that a new iris biometric system at the University of Georgia will be a hit on campus once student return to campus this fall. Georgia recently deployed new iris scanners across its campus to facilitate entry to dining halls and the student rec center. The project has replaced the previous hand geometry scanners.

Biometrics is now being used to facilitate a range of physical and logical access, secure ID verification for payments and other utilities, and it’s the technology that millions of people now use to unlock their phone each day. But on campus, biometric technology wasn’t always so pervasive, so we’re taking a look back to 2004 and our “Bolt-on biometrics for the college campus” story that discussed ways campuses could get started with the technology.