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My intentions are not to advertise or market for these people but trying to know why these diploma mills are on the rise specially in Malaysia and other asian countries and market seems to be growing.

From a rough survey that I did, there seems to be 22 unaccredited universities are operation in this country that just had a population of 23 million people. Out of every 100 graduates there would be 10 with bogus degrees.

My question is what can be done to stop this and who in US has the authrity to block these websites with some concrete steps to wipe out the diploma mills.?

Peter Chin

 

Hi Peter,

In a paper I am soon to present at the Australian Universities Quality Forum, I profile 27 unauthorised providers of higher education that have attempted to operate in Australia from 1998 to the present date, plus 7 others that are currently operating. Why does this happen? Well, you can have all the legislation in the world, but policing and enforcement are the only keys. Methinks Malaysia, like many other Asia Pacific nations, sucumb to the clever words and bullshit stories spun by degree mills. The bottom line is noone ever bother to checks...

Cheers,

George

 

Hi George, I will be very interested to see your paper and its likely that those 27 institutions are around in Malaysia as well. Please keep me informed.

Malaysian education department point of view is that if there is ready buyer and a seller for a degree, there is nothing cn be done by the department unless the person use that degree to apply for a job or advertise it to take advantage of any kind or cheat a third part using the fake degree.


Again the education department of Malaysia can only take action on Malaysia institutions but can't do much on out of country institutions that advertise directly in local newspapers and magazines.

It seems to me that everyone thinks that this is not their problem...

Peter Chin

 

That seems to be a prevalent human trait, I'm afraid.