Leveraging Leading Technology to offer an Excellent Student Experience
Higher Ed Services (HES) and Digitary are proud to welcome King’s Own Institute (KOI) to the My eQuals community. My eQuals is the official digital tertiary credentials platform for Australia and New Zealand. KOI launched on the My eQuals platform on January 1st, 2022, providing students and graduates with greater access to their official digital academic credentials.
Higher Ed Services (HES) and Digitary are proud to welcome King’s Own Institute (KOI) to the My eQuals community. My eQuals is the official digital tertiary credentials platform for Australia and New Zealand. KOI launched on the My eQuals platform on January 1st, 2022, providing students and graduates with greater access to their official digital academic credentials.
KOI students and graduates will now have 24/7 access to their academic credentials, enabling instant access and the ability to share their official academic documents digitally with verifiers, such as education institutions, government agencies, employers and professional bodies: both securely and anywhere in the world. Documents issued through My eQuals are tamper-evident and cryptographically signed, making them secure, verified, and official.
KOI is a member of Independent Higher Education Australia (IHEA), the peak body representing independent higher education providers in Australia. With KOI joining My eQuals through IHEA, they join a number of IHEA members now part of the My eQuals community as part of the membership services offered by IHEA.
Doug Hinchliffe – CEO, Dean & President, King’s Own Institute (KOI) Testimonial
“We are thrilled to welcome KOI to the My eQuals community and to help support their learners with easily accessible digital academic credentials through the My eQuals platform.” Jay Segeth, Program Director, My eQuals said, “The onboarding to My eQuals with KOI has been extremely positive and collaborative over the past few months, culminating in a successful launch this year. The extension of IHEA members actively servicing students and graduates on My eQuals with their credentials, continues through our successful partnership, with KOI being one of those active members.”
“KOI is proud to join the My eQuals community, enabling us to work together to offer our students, graduates, and employers’ access to secure digital credentials. My eQuals will be a fantastic addition to KOI, and really beneficial to students to be recognised with their credentials anywhere in the world.” Dr Doug Hinchliffe, CEO & Dean and President said, “Having 24/7 access to official academic documents through the My eQuals platform will empower our students to present their qualifications in a controlled manner. We are proud of our students and as we produce leaders in the community, we are excited that they can actively lead in presenting the best versions of themselves via My eQuals.”
The My eQuals platform has been widely adopted by higher education institutions in Australia and New Zealand and the implementation of My eQuals into KOI will make it possible for current and former students to access official digital academic credentials, competencies, and achievements securely and easily from anywhere around world.
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About King’s Own Institute (KOI):
King’s Own Institute (KOI) is a leading private institution of higher education located in central Sydney, Australia and offering high quality accredited diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Accounting, Business, Management, Information Technology (IT) and postgraduate courses in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). King’s Own Institute (KOI) aims to be a recognised leader as an education provider famous for nurturing their students into successful careers. For further details visit www.koi.edu.au
About My eQuals
My eQuals is the official tertiary credentials digital platform for the higher education sector, students and verifiers. It is a Pan-Pacific solution providing easy, secure access to certified, official qualification records for Australian and New Zealand universities and their learners.
My eQuals was conceived in 2015 in response to the need for higher education institutions to have an easy and secure place to issue and manage official credentials for their students and graduates. It also recognised the need for those learners to have an easy and secure place to view and share the same credentials in a way that they could be easily verified by employers, recruitment professionals and verification agencies. For further details visit: www.myequals.edu.au
About Digitary
Digitary was launched in Dublin, Ireland in 2005, and has grown to become the leading online platform for certifying, sharing, and verifying academic credentials. Learner-centric since the very start, Digitary enables millions of learners to access their verified achievements and to share them with others securely, quickly, and easily. Digitary is now used by organisations in over 135 countries. For further details visit www.digitary.net
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AVAILABLE FOR COMMENT:
Doug Hinchliffe – CEO, Dean & President, KOI – doug@koi.edu.au
Jay Segeth – Program Director, My eQuals – jsegeth@hes.edu.au
Daniel Hibbert – Commercial Director, Digitary – daniel.hibbert@digitary.net
MEDIA ENQUIRIES:
Catherine Stanley – Head of Marketing, Digitary – catherine.stanley@digitary.net
Marni MacGilp, Marketing Manager, Digitary – marni.macgilp@digitary.net
