Liberia: "Bogus Degrees On Sale in the U.S."

galanga · Aug 23, 2005

Bogus Degrees On Sale in the U.S., from The Analyst (Monrovia), August 23, 2005.

The United States of America has long been considered by Liberians 'a land of vast opportunities.'

For this reason, every second Liberians want to emigrate to the U.S. to study and work. Many had gone and come back brandishing academic achievements - few claimed to have earned degrees in the applied sciences while a lot of others claimed master's and doctorate degrees in the social sciences. While no efforts were made in the past to question these academic accolades, no Liberian misses the fact that the high academic exploits from high profiles overseas universities and colleges notwithstanding, the nation stands in want of the professional structuring of the economy, the building of the nation's political and social institutions, and the streamlining of the judiciary and law enforcement agencies.

Degree holders returning from the U.S. and elsewhere had simply alighted at the Roberts International Airport in well-polished suit coats, grabbed a ministerial job in Monrovia, and packed up and flew away having drained state coffers of much-needed pennies. With the October legislative and presidential elections on the horizon, the Liberian electorate is apparently promising a protest vote against the do-gooder degree holders, generally indicting educated people for the woes of the Liberian society. But just how many of these so-called degree holders are earners and how many are imposters?

(article continues, with comments about Dunbar, the Randocks, and St. Regis)
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