I have been awarded a doctorate by Robertson University. Until I produced my amateur radio certificate of 19 years they would only offer me a Masters degree. This obviously means that there is some quality assessment. The subject of the award is Information technology. this is not the only certificate I produced. I produced some IT soft skills certificates including Train the IT Trainer and Train the Trainer. I also produced some Open University course completion letter. This is in addition to all the other IT certificates I produced.
Curiousity got the better of me! So Robertstown University is accredited through Liberia. Now it all makes sense...!!!
From a Liberian Citizen about St. Regis University and Others. St. Regis University does not represent the educational system of Liberia. As the matter of fact they are a menace, and are scorned for their abuse of the Liberian name. If you have noticed over the years, pretty much over the past 14 years, the educational system of Liberia was absolutely destroyed. We have experienced the worst time in all of our history as a nation. Although the University of Liberia was operating, it did not do so at full capacity. One can argue that she operated at 40 percent capacity, and at times, closed due to fighting in the city. The universities parading themselves in the world of online academia claiming credentials from the Republic of Liberia are the result of the past government we had in place. Liberia was hijacked but bandits calling themselves officials and liberators. The cream of the crop within Liberian institutions are either retired, dead, or in exile/been in exile since 1989/1990. St. Regis University and others claiming Liberian accreditation will be haunted down and from what I'm hearing, legal action will be taken in the very near future if they do not cease and desist from their misrepresentation of the Liberian educational system. Beware that, just as Liberia was used for all sorts of criminal activities during the past 14 years, these activities gained foothold in the accrediting department of the Educational Ministry. From what I know, it was few individuals within the Charles Taylor government who accepted, processed and approved credentials for St. Regis and her sub Universities with different names, without any policy or criteria pertaining to distance education in Liberia. It is widely believed that St. Regis also awarded some of these same officials with some very interesting degree titles and diplomas. Liberia does not have a distance education policy, did not expect to have any and have never supported any Liberian college offering distance education. Neither has any legitimate Liberian college, University, thought about nor wants to offer distance education. Perhaps in the future. St. Regis University and others allowed themselves to be taken over by greed. They have not only set themselves up for future litigations but, the scorn of Liberians who do not want their legitimate University and Colleges in Liberia to be viewed with the same lens. Some of us have talked to future candidates and the current University of Liberia president to take seriously the image of the Liberian University system and help push, for reform and also deny any enterprise wanting to use our country as their staging ground for mischief. The new Ministry of education after the general election in 2005 will address these issues, I’m told. The current Chairman of Liberian Interim Government has been briefed and perhaps, he’ll address the issue. However, the Ministry of Education is still ran by some of those stooges from the former Taylor government, as the peace agreement in Accra Ghana, with the rebels, divvied up the government with Taylor’s Minister still at the helm of the educational ministry. Feel free to comment and perhaps my presence here may help clarify lot of myths about our educational system both in Liberia and parts of Africa.
For a long time, the picture of the Robertstown campus, as depicted on their website, happened to be, in fact, Winston Churchill's ancestral home in England, Blenheim Palace. I trust this will serve to show Dr. Langdell how far ahead of his time Churchill was, in permitting Robertstown University to use his home for their campus.
A master's degree in IT for a radio certificate? A doctorate for some IT certifications? Quality process? You must be kidding yourself if you think the degree you got has some value. If this was the case, half of the world would be a doctor based on some sort of training.
And the first person who is finally going to stop pussy-footing around and actually label Robertstown University the diploma mill (or, at the very least, highly-suspect and clearly substandard so-called "institution") that it clearly is, will be... [drum roll, please]
NOTE TO THE READER: See this post in the other, duplicate "Robertstown University" thread started by "langdell" in these forums. And -- just a word to the wise -- act accordingly.
