Academic integrity has become an area of global concernacross higher education and employment sectors, with systemic risks to institutional credibility and labour market efficiency posed by falsification of records. This paper provides a review of the design and implementation of a student record verification system based on blockchain distributed ledgers, which can generate a secure, tamper-proof decentralized academic credential repository. In this paper, the study was conducted considering two main objectives: (i) design and implementation of a blockchain-based system for secure storage and issuance of student academic records; and ii) evaluation of the performance or criteria such as verification speed, data integrity and resistance to unauthorised modification. Using a Design Science Research (DSR) approach, we propose an architecture consisting of smart contracts deployed on Ethereum together with off-chain storage via IPFS for the documents and an RBAC framework to dictate how the stakeholders can interact. Experimental results show that the system achieves mean verification in 1.31 seconds, and a 100% tamper detection accuracy over an adversarial test case of 1500; it also lowers per transaction issuance costs from between USD15-45 to just USD0.0056 as compared to conventional administrative proces- -ses. These findings substantiate blockchain as a practicallyand realistically suitable infrastructure for the management of academic credentials, which takes on immense importance for institutions,employers, and national qualification frameworks.