Knightsbridge U is NOT claiming Liberian accreditation

Knightsbridge University is not claiming Liberian accreditation.

People who are usually right wrote suggested that they did, but that is wrong, and I should have indpendently confirmed. My apologies.

Knightsbridge, in fact, firmly rejected the recent offer to become Liberian-accredited on payment of $50,000 -- just as they were the first member school to 'jump ship' from the dreadful World Association of Universities and College.

Knightsbridge was incorporated in Liberia for a while, but abandoned that something like ten years ago, before the current accreditation situation arose.

 

On this point, good for them.

 

Well, that's just fine and dandy, thanks John. And, yes, why the hell would they want Liberian accreditation? Knightsbridge have all the answers - they can even help you create your own college...see http://www.knightsbridgeuniversity.com/turnkey.html

So I wonder how Knightsbridge is going with its submission of accreditation and authority to grant degrees in Denmark? Oh, but wait, of course they are incoroporated there and want nothing to do with the MOE. So, where does Knightsbridge obtain its degree granting authority?

Cheers,

George

 

They do say, they do it themselves to stay pure:

 

George: The cook up your own college thing is really pretty funny. So is the fake olde Englishe name. If they are (whatever "are" means) in Denmark, why not a Danish name? Here's an interesting thing: some of their faculty (Rohan Gunaratna, for example) are fairly distinguished. But then, there is a steady emphasis on upscaleness throughout the KU website. Tall Poppy Tech, anyone?

 

I'm always pleased to see honest upstanding organizations that are unwilling to taint their reputation by allowing political strings to be attached to their apparently fraudulent operation.

 

I suppose that "self-validating" is a high-toned European phrase that would translate into American as "not accredited".

Is validation performed by yourself really validation? (Sounds like masturbation.)

So as George asked, does corporate registration in Denmark legally authorize one to issue academic degrees? I don't know enough about Danish educational law to say, but it sounds kind of doubtful.

I kind of believe this one. We saw a similar problem in the UK (leading to the creation of the QAA) and in Australia (with Greenwich).

Universities are created by government Act (or however it is in Denmark), and from that point onward their continuing QA oversight, their 'accreditation' in other words, comes in large part from the funding authorities. So if they can get that initial approval, all they need to do is to claim to be private, decline funding, and avoid quality oversight.

In other words, the classic European-style system is still not quite sure about how to regulate private universities.

Actually the US isn't 100% sure either, with its voluntary accreditation and state-approval disputes. But since we have countless private universities, a de-facto system of educational expectations has long ago evolved, namely accrediting associations.

The British have recently created a quasi-government agency (the QAA) to separate the funding and QA functions, and the Australian AQF framework seems to evolving into something more accreditor-like. (Stimulated by foreign germs infecting small islands.)

They refuse to submit to external quality assurance oversight because they offer "high quality programmes"? Yeah, right...

If they think that the Danish funding/oversight authorities quash quality, then they need to explain how the University of Copenhagen has managed to earn an academic reputation that's infinitely better than Knightsbridge's.

They could whine that it's because Copenhagen has the money to afford labs and institutes and many well-funded research projects. But hey, it's Knightsbridge that's claiming that they turn funding down in the name of quality.

Quantum mechanics has its 'Copenhagen interpretation'. Perhaps questionable European "universities" have their 'Knightsbridge interpretation'.

 

Bill Dayson asked:

> Is validation performed by yourself really validation?

And if it is, then why should any student bother getting a degree from Knightsbridge or anywhere else? The student should just validate himself, instead.

 

“Strings of control and oversight, but also strings of political influence, and this last string is unacceptable”

Absolutely correct. Some of our finest degree mill operators have found themselves eating off metal trays and taking group showers due to the above. I glad they are staying pure by constant movement. In the pre-politically correct days I think this was known as “being on the lam” and “G-men” did the control and oversight.