Questionable & fake qualifications
As a national academic, I totally concur with the observation posted on one of my UPNG academic colleagues Peter Kanaparo’s face book page today (Monday, 4 February, 2019) regarding Indian academics with questionable and fake qualifications being employed by UPNG as executive deans, directors and lecturers.
In fact a number of us without fear or favour continue to stand up for what is right before God and man and for the best interest of UPNG and our country regarding such issues but for far too long our right to express and expose these issues at the School of Business and Public Policy has been cunnigly suppressed by these foreign academics with highly questionable educational backgrounds. Their spoken and written English is below local and international standards. A number of them don’t even know the difference between the lower and upper case nor do they know how to write a complete coherent paragraph structure.
Even the Executive Dean of the School of Business and Public Policy told academic staff that he has no hard-copy of his PHD thesis when he was asked to produce a copy last year. This is public knowledge. All their qualifications are from within India with no exposure outside. They become a laughing stock before Masters students and these students complain a lot. They teach by reading or quoting directly from the text book. Many of these academics are brought in by lower level educational service providers owned by their cronies like IBS or ITI and all of a sudden make their way into the University. This is a total joke and a slap in the face of highly qualified PNG nationals who have graduated in some of the prestigious universities around the world.
Further, I think this practice is happening every way and it is frightening to say the least. In the process, the quality of education is therefore highly compromised here. However, exceptions exist where qualified Indians or foreign academics are engaged, but the overall recruitment process is highly questionable. In addition, the mistreatment of highly qualified national academics by these group of lowly qualified and fake qualification holders must come to a complete stop ASAP or many of our highly educated national academics will start to leave UPNG. I even started applying for jobs to leave UPNG.
Finally, I am of the view that the time has finally arrived via the recently announced UPNG shake-up exercise by DHERST to unearth the truth about many issues including the recruitment scam. Let this momentum continue to build until such a time when this issue is addressed permanently. I am looking forward to supporting this worthy cause in what ever capacity to rid our School, UPNG and our country of Indians with fake academic qualifications. It’s now or never that we must explore ways of addressing this issue of national significance.
- Questionable & fake qualifications - February 5, 2019
