[MToday] Of fake doctorates and diploma mills …
KSChin
gnh
El Jefe
STEPHEN
Be careful of the FAKE girlies in town ……
Very beautiful at one look, come closer and you puke ! !!!! !!
Now if you want 72 or 76 “virgins”, all at your service at a minutes notice …..
………. Just call me - millions of China Dolls are available
( but must PREPAY ok ? )
From: sangk...@googlegroups.com [mailto:sangk...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of KSChin
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2007
9:39 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: [sangkancil] [MToday] Of
fake doctorates and diploma mills …
9/06: Of fake doctorates and diploma mills ...
I spent the whole of my Sunday morning yesterday (June 17, 2007) websites and blogsites crawling - and at the end of it all found myself to be quite shockingly enlightened on the issue of fake university qualifications being paraded as genuine ones, as means of getting social approval and recognition in our society.
It all started with a posting in the blogsite klpos.com which reports a revelation by one of its readers that the CEO of a leading business and leadership think-tank in this country, who happens to be a leading personality in our corporate and social circles as well, holds a "fake" PhD awarded by a non-conventional "university"- the Irish International University (IIU).
What makes it even more damaging is the fact that the "official" websites of orgaisations to which the personality is connected either fail to indicate clearly the university that awarded him the PhD or cleverly try to create the impression that the PhD is awarded by Australia's Monash University, where the personality's first degree was obtained.
A number of link clickings later I became quite familiar with the thorough researches carried out by a Malaysian blogger (living abroad?), Idlin Zakaria (a female!), who had indeed educated me quite thoroughly on the wicked and shady world of the US and UK "unaccredited" institutions of higher learning - with a special emphasis on the IIU itself.
I find the case of the IIU to be of special interest because of its possible links with, and impact on, some Malaysian luminaries. Indeed, some readers contributing comments to the blogsite postings even alluded to the fact that some Malaysians may be the "brain" behind the "university" project itself.
The university held a mammoth international convocation in Malaysia recently, and a prominent Malaysian politician and member of the Cabinet, it is said, played a major role in officiating the opening ceremony and in the proceedings of the event.
The IIU had for several years now been a provider and organiser of an "executive MBA" program in Malaysia - and the convocation ceremonies for the program are held regularly at the International Islamic University (UIA) in Gombak.
Moreover, some prominent Malaysian corporate, political and government personalities are known to be mingling around shamelessly and confidently, flouting their IIU "doctorates" to the unsuspecting public.
Most interesting is the case of an "artiste" who, besides being a recording singer, doubles as an entrepreneur, a motivation expert, an educationist, and what have you. The man has made the rare achievement of gaining his PhD (or was it a DBA?) after only a few months of obtaining getting his Masters from the same university.
At the time the extraordinary intellectual feat was announced to the public, I could even detect an attempt to mislead the public - with claims that the doctorate was awarded by the the smallest, yet one of the most prestigious and oldest college of Cambridge University, the Peterhouse College.
It was, however, quite accurate that the doctorate was awarded at a ceremony held at Peterhouse College. The college, like the UIA in Gombak, must have rent out its hall for the ceremony!
The IIU, however, is not the first or the only diploma mill that have done brisk business among Malaysian "clients". Prior to this, one other similar "university" that had awarded doctorates to Malaysian luminaries under similar circumstances - including to the wife of a senior cabinet minister - was the Pacific Western University of the USA.
The university was even nown as having awarded the doctorates at convocation ceremonies at venues convenient to the recipients - for the right price, I suppose.
The interesting question to ask, I suppose, is this: Why are there so many respectable Malaysians willing to pay thousands of ringgit just to get the title "Dr." attached to their names, although they very well know that the academic title is not the real thing?
To my mind, this willingness to buy fake doctorates come under the same category of behaviour as the willingness to buy such titles as "datuk" from head of states willing to sell them or even from sultanates that has long defunct, such as the Sultanate of Sulu in the Philippines.
What these people are after is actually the titles themselves, and their social utilities, rather than the qualities and achievements that the titles are supposed to be indicative of - intellectual rigour and level of academic discipline in the case of the doctorate and the quality of service and dedication to the state in the case of the datukship.
With the advent of private higher education - and with the attendant increasing "vocationalisation" of public higher educational institutions in this country - one tends to detect a tendency towards attaching greater importance to qualifications rather than to knowledge itself. Today's students seem to give more emphases to qualifications and to career opportunities attached to particular qualifications, and less attention is being given to knowledge or the process of knowledge acquisition.
As a result, less and less attention is given these days to the quality of education, to the contents of curriculums, to the quality of teachers and lecturers, and to the reputation and standards of colleges and universities attended.
Very few potential university students, and even parents of these potential students, are concerned these days with the real quality of education and intellectual pursuit - whether among foreign universities attached to local private colleges through twinning arrangements or among local public universities with their hurriedly formulated programs and courses.
El Jefe
1. Tan Sri Dato' Dr. Cam Soh Thiam Hong - BSA Manufacturing
Chairman-- this idiot didnt even pass form 2 from his School in
Jinjang. He has a PHD.
On Jun 20, 9:38 am, KSChin <koonsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 9/06: Of fake doctorates and diploma mills ...
> Category: General Posted by: Raja Petra
> Rustam Sani
>
> I spent the whole of my Sunday morning yesterday (June 17, 2007)
> websites and blogsites crawling - and at the end of it all found
> myself to be quite shockingly enlightened on the issue of fake
> university qualifications being paraded as genuine ones, as means of
> getting social approval and recognition in our society.
>
> It all started with a posting in the blogsite klpos.com which reports
> a revelation by one of its readers that the CEO of a leading business
> and leadership think-tank in this country, who happens to be a
> leading personality in our corporate and social circles as well,
> holds a "fake" PhD awarded by a non-conventional "university"- the
> Irish International University (IIU).
>
> What makes it even more damaging is the fact that the "official"
> websites of orgaisations to which the personality is connected either
> fail to indicate clearly the university that awarded him the PhD or
> cleverly try to create the impression that the PhD is awarded by
> Australia's Monash University, where the personality's first degree
> was obtained.
>
> A number of link clickings later I became quite familiar with the
> thorough researches carried out by a Malaysian blogger (living
> abroad?), Idlin Zakaria (a female!), who had indeed educated me quite
> thoroughly on the wicked and shady world of the US and UK
> "unaccredited" institutions of higher learning - with a special
> emphasis on the IIU itself.
>
> I find the case of the IIU to be of special interest because of its
> possible links with, and impact on, some Malaysian luminaries.
> Indeed, some readers contributing comments to the blogsite postings
> even alluded to the fact that some Malaysians may be the "brain"
> behind the "university" project itself.
>
> The university held a mammoth international convocation in Malaysia
> recently, and a prominent Malaysian politician and member of the
> Cabinet, it is said, played a major role in officiating the opening
> ceremony and in the proceedings of the event.
>
> The IIU had for several years now been a provider and organiser of an
> "executive MBA" program in Malaysia - and the convocation ceremonies
> for the program are held regularly at the International Islamic
> University (UIA) in Gombak.
>
> Moreover, some prominent Malaysian corporate, political and
> government personalities are known to be mingling around shamelessly
> and confidently, flouting their IIU "doctorates" to the unsuspecting
> public.
>
> Most interesting is the case of an "artiste" who, besides being a
> recording singer, doubles as an entrepreneur, a motivation expert, an
> educationist, and what have you. The man has made the rare
> achievement of gaining his PhD (or was it a DBA?) after only a few
> months of obtaining getting his Masters from the same university.
>
> At the time the extraordinary intellectual feat was announced to the
> public, I could even detect an attempt to mislead the public - with
> claims that the doctorate was awarded by the the smallest, yet one of
> the most prestigious and oldest college of Cambridge University, the
> Peterhouse College.
>
> It was, however, quite accurate that the doctorate was awarded at a
> ceremony held at Peterhouse College. The college, like the UIA in
> Gombak, must have rent out its hall for the ceremony!
>
> The IIU, however, is not the first or the only diploma mill that have
> done brisk business among Malaysian "clients". Prior to this, one
> other similar "university" that had awarded doctorates to Malaysian
> luminaries under similar circumstances - including to the wife of a
> senior cabinet minister - was the Pacific Western University of the USA.
>
> The university was even nown as having awarded the doctorates at
> convocation ceremonies at venues convenient to the recipients - for
> the right price, I suppose.
>
> The interesting question to ask, I suppose, is this: Why are there so
> many respectable Malaysians willing to pay thousands of ringgit just
> to get the title "Dr." attached to their names, although they very
> well know that the academic title is not the real thing?
>
> To my mind, this willingness to buy fake doctorates come under the
> same category of behaviour as the willingness to buy such titles as
> "datuk" from head of states willing to sell them or even from
> sultanates that has long defunct, such as the Sultanate of Sulu in
> the Philippines.
>
> What these people are after is actually the titles themselves, and
> their social utilities, rather than the qualities and achievements
> that the titles are supposed to be indicative of - intellectual
> rigour and level of academic discipline in the case of the doctorate
> and the quality of service and dedication to the state in the case of
> the datukship.
>
> With the advent of private higher education - and with the attendant
> increasing "vocationalisation" of public higher educational
> institutions in this country - one tends to detect a tendency towards
> attaching greater importance to qualifications rather than to
> knowledge itself. Today's students seem to give more emphases to
> qualifications and to career opportunities attached to particular
> qualifications, and less attention is being given to knowledge or the
> process of knowledge acquisition.
>
> As a result, less and less attention is given these days to the
> quality of education, to the contents of curriculums, to the quality
> of teachers and lecturers, and to the reputation and standards of
> colleges and universities attended.
>
> Very few potential university students, and even parents of these
> potential students, are concerned these days with the real quality of
> education and intellectual pursuit - whether among foreign
longjaafar
their "qualifications" to get jobs or positons.