The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) school board in India will be introducing a biometric attendance system in 456 primary schools when the new academic year starts in June, reports Indian Express. The project has cost Rs 10 million to implement, and it covers lower and upper primary municipal schools, 3,600 teachers, non-teaching staff and about […]

Next year, New Jersey’s Ocean City High School will implement new student ID cards that must be swiped for attendance purposes. After the objections over similar ID systems in Texas, New Jersey citizens may not be so willing to welcome this technology into their schools. The Examiner reports that the high school will be implementing […]

John Jay High School in San Antonio’s Northside Independent School District has banned a sophomore after a legal issue surrounding the student’s refusal to wear the school’s RFID-chip student ID. As reported on Wired.com, the school district implemented the new IDs at the beginning of the school year. The RFID chip monitors where students go […]

Plastic Cards vs. Smart phones By Emil Bonaduce, Vice President, Corporate Development, CardSmith Let’s get to the point: plastic ID cards used for transactions are going to be around for a long time. Sure, smart phones are amazing. We’ve seen phones utilizing NFC technology buy sodas in ultra-tech environments. Just bump your phone and transfer […]

A federal court is expected to rule this week on a mandate by the Northside Independent School District San Antonio, Texas requiring students to wear RFID-equipped name badges that enable school administrators to track a student’s whereabouts while on campus. But 15-year-old Andrea Hernandez is objecting to the mandate for religious reasons, calling the requirement […]

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 […]

College students are more interested in using their smart phones as an all-around identity product rather that what most colleges and universities now offer–picture IDs with a mag stripe or contactless chip, a study from SecurityInfowatch.com reports. The study, conducted among 980 U.S. four-year and two-year colleges and universities, found that convenience is the “ultimate […]

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who are utilizing their unlimited bus ride passes will, starting next week, have to produce their student ID card as well. The bus rides are paid for by the university’s student fees account and if a non-student is using the pass, he is costing the school money. Drivers will […]

In an effort to offer more protection for its students, the University of Southern California is installing fingerprint scanners at the entrance of all on-campus residence facilities. Students have until the end of this week to get their fingerprints scanned and a photo taken. Starting next Monday, a student will have to scan his finger […]

Chowan University, Murfreesboro, N.C., has tapped Blackboard Transact to provide its campus-wide, one-card system that involves a contactless student identification card that can be used for both commerce and door access. The Hawks Card enables students a cashless way to make purchases, including dining hall meals, books and supplies and laundry services. The card also […]