The issue of fake certificates and transcripts is alarming in our institutions back home. When nursing was free in the UK, many candidates from Cameroon came from an arts background but O' level Biology was needed. You will see a girl say " I just commot for phone ma mammie make e send me O' level Biology". You will ask what she means and where will the mother get O level Biology from. Her answer is " a beg nobi them di make those slips for Bamenda?. All my friends them don make A for O level Biology usam for get their admission. I tell my mami make e make me na only B".
I understand due to administrative bureaucracy, it was so difficult and took long to get a transcript from University of Buea until some students seeking admission from foreign universities had to make their own transcripts to meet deadlines. This became a norm and everyone started making their own transcripts and later their own degrees even without completing their courses. Poor management at times results in these poor kids getting involved in illegal activities to survive.
We have people in the UK who made their own degrees from Cameroon and got admitted for Masters degree programmes and surprisingly they completed the programmes successfully. I am made to understand that the situation is so bad that some equivalence outfits in America do not accept certificates or degrees from some schools in Cameroon.
The problem seems not to be confirmed to Cameroon. One state in Nigeria recently discovered that over 1000 teachers are operating with fake certificates as shown below. You can pity the students candidly.
Ogun sends home 1,024 teachers for certificate forgery
I understand due to administrative bureaucracy, it was so difficult and took long to get a transcript from University of Buea until some students seeking admission from foreign universities had to make their own transcripts to meet deadlines. This became a norm and everyone started making their own transcripts and later their own degrees even without completing their courses. Poor management at times results in these poor kids getting involved in illegal activities to survive.
We have people in the UK who made their own degrees from Cameroon and got admitted for Masters degree programmes and surprisingly they completed the programmes successfully. I am made to understand that the situation is so bad that some equivalence outfits in America do not accept certificates or degrees from some schools in Cameroon.
The problem seems not to be confirmed to Cameroon. One state in Nigeria recently discovered that over 1000 teachers are operating with fake certificates as shown below. You can pity the students candidly.
Ogun sends home 1,024 teachers for certificate forgery
The Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has suspended 1,024 teachers for falsification of certificates and other irregularities.
This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abeokuta by the Chairman of SUBEB, Chief Mufutau Ajibola.
According to the statement, the affected teachers are among the 6,531 out of the 19,154 earlier screened in an exercise conducted by a firm of consultants.
The consultants verified the teachers' claims in the form of statements of result and attestation letters from over 50 higher institutions across the country. A final report submitted to the State Government by the CITC Consulting on Nov. 26, indicated that 475 teachers were suspended for possessing forged certificates and not having their attestation letters confirmed by the institutions they presented.
No fewer than 274 teachers were suspended for not appearing for the screening exercise; 236 for being out rightly unqualified and 12 for exceeding statutory length of service.
The report also indicated that 11 were suspended for age discrepancies, 14 others were discovered to have died while two of the suspended teachers were considered to be impostors.
Ajibola said the suspension took immediate effect pending formal determination of the cases by the panel established in the Office of the Head of Service. He added that the document was being compiled for presentation to the state Police Command for prosecution.
Ajibola described the exercise as thorough and restated government's commitment to flush out persons who ``are polluting a noble and respected profession". The state Commissioner for Education, Mr Segun Odubela, said the exercise ``is about quality assurance of the state human capital development".
This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abeokuta by the Chairman of SUBEB, Chief Mufutau Ajibola.
According to the statement, the affected teachers are among the 6,531 out of the 19,154 earlier screened in an exercise conducted by a firm of consultants.
The consultants verified the teachers' claims in the form of statements of result and attestation letters from over 50 higher institutions across the country. A final report submitted to the State Government by the CITC Consulting on Nov. 26, indicated that 475 teachers were suspended for possessing forged certificates and not having their attestation letters confirmed by the institutions they presented.
No fewer than 274 teachers were suspended for not appearing for the screening exercise; 236 for being out rightly unqualified and 12 for exceeding statutory length of service.
The report also indicated that 11 were suspended for age discrepancies, 14 others were discovered to have died while two of the suspended teachers were considered to be impostors.
Ajibola said the suspension took immediate effect pending formal determination of the cases by the panel established in the Office of the Head of Service. He added that the document was being compiled for presentation to the state Police Command for prosecution.
Ajibola described the exercise as thorough and restated government's commitment to flush out persons who ``are polluting a noble and respected profession". The state Commissioner for Education, Mr Segun Odubela, said the exercise ``is about quality assurance of the state human capital development".
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