Monday, April 03, 2006

Parliamentary Report From The Malaysian Star

Parliament
Tuesday April 4, 2006


Most Fake Degrees From Abroad

MOST fake degrees in the country were MAs, MBAs, PhDs and honorary doctorates obtained overseas and via the Internet.

Higher Education Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Datuk Dr Adham Baba said although they had not received any official complaint on the matter, they were monitoring the situation.

He said the public could check the authenticity of degrees via the Public Service Department website.

“We currently recognise 25,236 courses from 55 countries,” he said at the Parliament lobby yesterday.

He said the National Accreditation Board had also been asked to strengthen its links with its foreign counterparts to overcome this problem.

Dr Adham said the ministry would make use if its collaboration with the British-based National Academic Recitations Information Centre (Naric) to monitor the authenticity of e-learning courses.

Naric contained information on higher education products from 180 countries.

“We will be able to check whether a particular e-learning university is giving out genuine degrees or otherwise,” he said.

He was asked about how the Government was monitoring e-learning or distance learning activities via the Internet.

Earlier, in the Dewan, Dr Adham said it was not easy for the Government to establish the authenticity of a particular e-learning course.

“This is why it is important for us to consult the Unesco/OECD Guidelines on Quality Provision in Cross Border Higher Education and Naric,” he said.

Dr Adham said the Government also relied on the Guidelines and Naric as well as the Lisbon Convention on transparency and procedures on academic qualifications to check on fake degrees.

13 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Qbuster,

Check out this website on Kemayan College, Malaysia on its lecturers' profile:http://www.kedu.edu.my/

You'd find at least 2 of them having doctorate degrees from 'fake' universities.

Kind regards,
Rex

Fri Apr 14, 11:44:00 PM EDT  
Blogger Q-Buster said...

The 2 you referred to are Cambridgeshire University and Irish International University. Both "universities", in my opinion, are diploma mills; and both "Dr." Harwindar Singh A/L Indar Singh Gill and "Dr." James Chong Ki Woi are as credible and qualified as your "Prof. Dr. Jessie" Jeffrey Chung. This makes Kemayan College (and University of West Sydney) an accessory to the crime of deceiving the general public with false credentials.

Cambridgeshire's webpage, http://www.csuedu.org/, leads to the Cambridge Management Institute, and their disclaimer on the webpage states: "Cambridge Management Institute is incorporated as a non-profit educational corporation in the state of Delaware, USA to provide onsite courses at Learning Centres around the world, and study by distance learning. IT AWARDS ITS OWN DEGREES. IT DOES NOT AWARD UNITED KINGDOM DEGREES. CAMBRIDGE MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE IS NOT ACCREDITED BY ANY ACCREDITING AGENCY RECOGNIZED BY THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF EDUCATION."

This is likely as a result of some form of reprimand.

Irish International University is listed as an unaccredited university by Oregon State's Office of Degree Authorization, which also states: "The Irish government has requested that Malaysia close this entity on grounds that it is neither Irish nor a university." Your government must have caught on to the UK's version of our diploma mills (although it seems "Prof. Dr." H. Sandhu is Malaysian).

More to come on IIU.

Sat Apr 15, 08:32:00 PM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I just visited "Jessie"'s website. The profile is still under construction... I am wondering how long do we still have to wait? For "her" to get air ticket to KL and get "her certs"...or do we have to wait for "her" to complete her studies first???

Fri May 19, 10:37:00 AM EDT  
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You are not alone in your investigations. Try going to http://www.degreediscussion.com and you will see many others with your same issues.

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What is the MQA doing? Premkumar (President of MUST) is also sitting in the faculty of Akamai University marketed by EDS Business School in Puchong (a university not even recognised by Hawaii itself). together with his hands and legs such as the infamous Harwindar Singh (noe he holds a different doctorate) - no longer DBA from Cambridgeshire University of New York but Ifugao State University (world ranking 20000++) - imagine this guy doesnt even have a bachelor or masters but has a PhD!

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