Can somebody verify this university? Thanks Source: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v3/news.php?id=106937 December 04, 2004 16:08 PM New Approach To Develop Traditional Medicines KOTA KINABALU, Dec 4 (Bernama) -- A new approach is needed to develop traditional complementary and homeopathic medicine as there has been wide interest and demand for such medicines lately, said Sabah Assistant Minister of Agriculture and Food Industry Datuk Bobey Suan. There was increasing acceptance for traditional or homeophatic medicines in the country, and this certainly called for a new approach to develop the industry further, he said at the convocation of the Borneo Homeopathy Medical Academy (BHMA), here Saturday. Thirty-eight graduands received their degrees and diplomas from the BHMA and institutions affiliated to it such as the Berkeley International University from the United States and Delhi College in India at the ceremony. Suan said educational development including in traditional medicine could act as a catalyst to the overall development of the country to achieve Vision 2020. -- BERNAMA
Berkeley International university is not part of the accredited University of California system. BIU appears on the Michigan list of unaccredited "universities" available at http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Non-accreditedSchools_78090_7.pdf . University of Berkley Online is not the same thing as the University of California at Berkeley either: note the difference in spelling. The CHEA database is here: http://www.chea.org/institutions/index.cfm. G
UoB is unaccredited as stated before. They are located in Berkley, MI. (the mail box is assume) That's why the spelling is Berkley. Berkley International at one tome clamed that they offer dual degree program. Persons with BIU degrees will get a second degree from Lincoln University in Northern CA. (Nationaly accredited) They advertised a document of such an agreement. Lincoln never answered my enquiries.
Thanks....apparently this so-called university is awarding the Advanced Diploma in Homeophatic Medical Science which carry the so-called title Dr. (H) to unsuspecting Malaysian students.
One educator of a private college in Sabah implied that the and I quote "Sabah is just like Ireland, they don't bother much about the " so called mainland (Peninsula) regulations "and they keen to work in their own way with their own people." I am not sure what that means but it does not sound very encouraging about the image of private education in that state. Also the individual in mind has a purchased doctorate and is educating young minds in the capital. I also gather that they have their own people and are not bothered about people from other states in the nation, and institutional regulations pertaining education establishments which are recognised and those that are not accredited.
salami89 Is possible for you to post in this forum or send me an email on this person with the "fake" PhD? I live in Kota Kinabalu - and therefore the curiousity.
Well there are some that are just awards and not degrees then they are called honarary doctorates which means that coursework and research has not been done, but when a so called research doctorate has no coursework nor research dissertation and is not honarary then there might be something suspect. Then again it is a free market. The way I see education from my experience will depend on the funds available to do viable research and if the graduates of the institution are well received not just by the academic fraternity but by the commercial and corporate one too. Some institutions are state runned but that does not mean that it does not cut corners especially when the $$$$ sign is staring at them straight at their faces. Others that are well run believe that their qualifications are priceless and only through academic achievement that it is awarded. Today, I read an article on China in some well known business and economic magazines. From what I gather brand equity outside China is to add premium to the net price of a product, but in China brand equity means pricing at the lowest you can possibly afford! Apply that analogy to the education industry and if universities there begin to latch on to this manufacturing bent of a concept - good quality and cheap will be the basis of their academic programs. That would really mean open market competition for all the universities of the world.