Ban these MBAs in Sri Lanka
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The whole story started with an article (Attachment01) which was
published in the Sunday Leader news Paper dated November 5th , 2006
about the Institutes of Technological Studies (ITS) and the American
University of Asia (AUA) which was an affiliated university.
It's true that AUA was closed in 1998, hence ITS had to stop enrolling
new students for the AUA MBA. But the funny part is at the end of the
MBA program (after over 4 years), all the students received an
original SIGNATURED certificate from AUA which was not exists at that
time. This was discussed in detail in another article which was
published on the same news paper dated December 31 st 2006
(Attachment01.2)
*** Then who signed these certificates if AUA was closed 5 years
before??!!
Then ITS started another MBA program with another university called
American City University (ACU). This is the best fraud happened ever.
ACU is just a name and an office in a closed building. The attached
article ( Attachment02) about the ACU will give you a better
understand about the quality of the university in Wyoming. http://
www.cheyenneherald.com/articles.asp (February 27, 2006 articles).
(This was confirmed by the US embassy that there is no such registered
university call ACU)
As a response to the article which was published in the Sunday Leader,
ITS has put a quarter page advertisement on the November 19th 2006
( Attachment03). If you notice in the article, you will never find the
ACU university logo other than the TROY University logo, which ITS is
trying to emphasize.
*** Are they trying to hide something??!!
In the paper article it was mentioned to refer the ACU website for
authenticity. What is the point of checking the authenticity of ITS in
the ACU web site as the ACU itself is a fake university. ACU London
branch was dissolved recently; in fact the web link to the London
branch in the ACU web site has been removed.
After all these incidence ACU has changed their website recently. They
have replaced the image of the headquarters building with another
image. The original image can be seen in the attached document.
(Compare Attachment02 with the present web site).
*** How many times a university HEADQUATERS can be shifted from a
place to a place per year? Is it a caravan??!!
Misleading students
In the application form (Attachment04) of the ACU MBA program given by
ITS, in the first page it is clearly mentioned "Private University
Approved under the amended university Act". Earlier it was mentioned
in the UGC web site that ITS is registered to conduct "Bachelors
Degree in Computer Science and in Computer Systems Design" programs
only. You don't find these details in the UGC web site any more.
*** Can anybody point a valid reason for using such a statement other
than trying to mislead the public??
ITS management commented regarding articles published in the Sunday
Leader News paper, saying that this is a personnel issue between ITS
and the Press started with not giving advertisement to the news paper.
*** Do you really want to believe that??
Dear members of UGC, this is over to you. As a responsible government
regulatory body you have to be more selective and careful when
registering these types of degree sellers so called universities.
ITS Education Quality
After the article about ITS which was published in the Sunday Leader
(5th November 2006) news paper, certain employees were fired/resigned
charging allegations against academic misconducts. More academic
misconducts and personnel favors has being done by the MBA course
coordinator who is another lecturer employed at ITS. This person has
given final results for certain subjects for certain students without
even conducting final exams. So far two students have agreed to
disclose their names. All details will be published as soon as other
students agreed to disclose their details with evidence.
Some other unacceptable qualities and standards of ITS institute can
be listed as follows.
1. Submissions of assignments can be done any time (no deadlines)
2. Attendance for lectures are not counted at all
3. If the student is unable to sit for the exam, the exam paper (same
paper) will be emailed to the student after few days
4. No entry qualifications for the MBA are required (Students who just
did A/L are there)
5. Not even a single printed or photo copied note is distributed by
the university
6. Coordination is done by students (No designated coordinator from
ITS)
7. No matter what your effort is, the student will receive good
results
It is worthwhile to mention that some of the reputed lecturers are not
promoting above inferiorities. Some of the lecturers have already
discontinued their contracts with ITS due to above mentioned reasons
within last couple of months.
Please do understand that THIS IS NOT AN EXECISE OF MUD SLINGING. It's
just an effort of saving your money and time from these types of
degree sellers.
Good luck,
The Investigator
ACU Investigator [acu.its AT gmail.com]
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