(Phnom Penh): More than 418,000 students who passed Cambodia's national Grade 12 examination, or Baccalaureate, between 2022 and 2025 have received diplomas embedded with standard QR codes through the Verify.gov.kh platform, strengthening security and simplifying document verification.

Kim Sethany, Permanent Secretary of State at the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport, announced the figures during a workshop on “Cooperation on the Implementation of the Verify.gov Document Verification Platform: Experience Sharing and Joint Capacity Building” on Monday morning (Aug. 17).

“Through the Verify.gov.kh platform, more than 418,000 students who passed the Baccalaureate examination between 2022 and 2025 have been issued diplomas featuring Standard QR Codes with the highest levels of security and authenticity,” Kim Sethany said.

The system enables students, educational institutions, employers, and other users to quickly verify the authenticity of diplomas by scanning the embedded QR code.

The platform has also eliminated the need to legalise photocopies of Baccalaureate certificates and diplomas issued from the 5 December 2022 examination session onwards, reducing administrative procedures, costs, and paper use while helping prevent document forgery.

Jointly developed by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications since early 2023, the initiative represents another step in Cambodia's digital transformation of public services under the Digital Government Policy 2022-2035.

The Education Ministry plans to expand Verify.gov.kh to cover additional education-related documents and further integrate the platform with Cambodia's national education data system.
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