Indian university suspected in fake PhDs scam: police
New Straits Time, Malaysia
SHILLONG, India: 'Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said.
Police have arrested four senior officials from CMJ University in the northeastern state of Meghalaya on suspicion of fraud and forgery and are hunting for the chancellor, who has fled.
“We are not sure about his whereabouts, as he keeps changing his location frequently,” senior state police official Sunil Kumar Jain told AFP.
The private university, established in 2009 in the state capital Shillong, handed out 434 PhDs during the 2012-13 academic year despite its small faculty, arousing suspicions among local officials who filed a police complaint.
A PhD at CMJ University takes between two to five years and costs 127,000 rupees ($2,250), according to its website.
“In good faith, the universities were given permission to operate, but some seem to have taken this for a ride and this is distressing,” said Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma.
Credentials fraud is a serious problem in India, fuelled by a huge demand for qualifications, endemic corruption and poor regulation of the ultra-competitive and fast-growing education sector.
In 2011 a racket in fake airline pilot licences was exposed, while in 2010 police arrested the head of the national body responsible for certifying medical qualifications for allegedly accepting a bribe.'
For it is not legal or moral to post the original news, interested persons could go and read at below:
http://www.nst.com.my/latest/indian-university-suspected-in-fake-phds-scam-police-1.294228
Sunday, 14 July 2013
Monday, 17 June 2013
Conducting Kock Sucking 101 course for quick bucks.....
Your humble blogger is an old frail man who is struggling for his life and health every single day although he still has vigor for young ladies. Although he does not have time to update this blog, now he is proud to announce that one of hall of shame fellows, a fake PhD, is ready to serve you! He will speak for you at your service if you want to run a seminar or workshop or symposium or conference or what-so-ever named, he is always ready to wiggle tail to please you.
He will shout for you, he will blog your story, he will prove that he has not earned a PhD by showing his analytical mind or lack there of, he will promote your side shamelessly. Not satisfied, he will give you head, I mean he will give you more of his brain power by rumbling. Know who he is? Clueless can read on.....
His specialty is "Kock Sucking 101", he will teach you how to shamelessly sell single sided story without intellectual analysis, for bucks". Interested? Email as your humble blogger gonna pimp!
He will shout for you, he will blog your story, he will prove that he has not earned a PhD by showing his analytical mind or lack there of, he will promote your side shamelessly. Not satisfied, he will give you head, I mean he will give you more of his brain power by rumbling. Know who he is? Clueless can read on.....
His specialty is "Kock Sucking 101", he will teach you how to shamelessly sell single sided story without intellectual analysis, for bucks". Interested? Email as your humble blogger gonna pimp!
Saturday, 4 May 2013
Hullo Hullo, I am a PhD to help you write thesis for a suitable fee!
Your humble blogger is not happy or healthy, he is sick and sick of everything, but he thinks
he caught a good-sized fish today - the credit goes to a fan. That implies, he has found a fake
PhD or a forger, or a faker who should not put Dr. prefix in front of his or her name. A guy in
Yangon, who claims to have earned a PhD in English from London has written following:
'Hullo!! Do you need any help in English? I am ready to help you with suitable price.
When you come or phone call, you will know my abality in English.
My Address: No.101, Anawrahta road, Kyauktada township, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ph:- 0943039567. All will OK in English. OUR SERVICES Dissertation { Ph.D },
Thesis, Research Paper { Master }, Scholarship { e.g. Japan-[ JDS, YLP, Mext...],
Korea, Brunei.... University Admission Offer [ At home or abroad- e.g. - NUS, NTU,...]
Term Paper ( DBL, DML, DIL..), Contract, Affidavit Speech, Thanks, Presentation
(e.g. seminar, workshop...) Company's necessities; website, legal, Judicial, Medical, IT,
Literature... OUR CLASSES English Classes ( Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Ph.D
course) English for Business, Job seeking, Interview, TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, GCE English
for Kids (Starter, Flyer, Mover) Classes for Eighth, Ninth, Tenth Standard
**We also give English Advices to the needy people.'
Source: http://bominaung.grou.ps/people/rggzuaaumrhgqdwhk
That guy claims that he has earned a PhD (London). Your blogger infers that London
is Univ of London. Good for him.
However, the serious problem with his kind offer is that anyone who has studied up to the
high school education should be able to point out 2 spelling mistakes, similarly, anyone who
has learned English up to a degree level will be able to spot 3 contextual errors, all of them
in the very first sentence.
I hope that guy is joking. Read yourself! I would say if that guy has really earned a PhD in
English, your humble blogger will and should go and claim for a Noble (English) literature,
or a third PhD in English language.
he caught a good-sized fish today - the credit goes to a fan. That implies, he has found a fake
PhD or a forger, or a faker who should not put Dr. prefix in front of his or her name. A guy in
Yangon, who claims to have earned a PhD in English from London has written following:
'Hullo!! Do you need any help in English? I am ready to help you with suitable price.
When you come or phone call, you will know my abality in English.
My Address: No.101, Anawrahta road, Kyauktada township, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ph:- 0943039567. All will OK in English. OUR SERVICES Dissertation { Ph.D },
Thesis, Research Paper { Master }, Scholarship { e.g. Japan-[ JDS, YLP, Mext...],
Korea, Brunei.... University Admission Offer [ At home or abroad- e.g. - NUS, NTU,...]
Term Paper ( DBL, DML, DIL..), Contract, Affidavit Speech, Thanks, Presentation
(e.g. seminar, workshop...) Company's necessities; website, legal, Judicial, Medical, IT,
Literature... OUR CLASSES English Classes ( Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Ph.D
course) English for Business, Job seeking, Interview, TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, GCE English
for Kids (Starter, Flyer, Mover) Classes for Eighth, Ninth, Tenth Standard
**We also give English Advices to the needy people.'
Source: http://bominaung.grou.ps/people/rggzuaaumrhgqdwhk
That guy claims that he has earned a PhD (London). Your blogger infers that London
is Univ of London. Good for him.
However, the serious problem with his kind offer is that anyone who has studied up to the
high school education should be able to point out 2 spelling mistakes, similarly, anyone who
has learned English up to a degree level will be able to spot 3 contextual errors, all of them
in the very first sentence.
I hope that guy is joking. Read yourself! I would say if that guy has really earned a PhD in
English, your humble blogger will and should go and claim for a Noble (English) literature,
or a third PhD in English language.
Tuesday, 23 April 2013
Been there, done that, learned and earned to doubt!
Some of us have been there, done that, paid dues, stayed hungry, endured abuses, stayed
awake at nights worrying for research, dissertation and papers, licked ego-bruising wounds,
swallowed pride, occasionally faced rejections, drifted hopelessly in uncertainties, sighed
seriously at thin wallets and drained bank accounts, supplemented meager stipends with
part-time, quarreled with supporting wives, felt sorrow for not being able to provide, gotten
sick with peers and professors, worried for future job prospects, just for a degree, a three
letter word with some dots. Yes we have suffered all those hardships along the pursuits of
terminal and doctoral degrees at postgraduate schools.
By doing so, we learned the trade, we observed the tricks, we think we can spot the dust in
the sleek operators, snake oil dealing fakers whom we name and shame in this humble blog.
Dr. Nyein Chan is one such person. Below is his statement (in his own words) why does he
think that Maung Zar Ni is faking his PhD. Of course, we do know some supervisors have
vetted their candidates unworthy for a PhD degree the right to call themselves Dr." So will
our sufferings become all for nothing, no way! This blog is born to name and shame fakers.
Without further ado, I present Dr. Nyein Chan to present research findings and conclusions.
'Dear Sirs and Madams,
I am Dr Nyein Chan. I write to you regarding the PhD thesis of Mr Maung Zarni (or Dr Zarni
has he prefers to be called). In particular, I am referring to this person:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/
I understand that it has been confirmed by the University of Wisconsin at Madison that Maung
Zarni has indeed been awarded with a PhD. This still does not stop me from investigating further.
I hereby make you known that I genuinely, seriously and honestly have doubts in the academic authenticity and legitimacy of Zarni's PhD thesis for reasons stated below.
Firstly, his so-called PhD thesis can be found at
www.pyinnya.com/wp-content/
unless someone immediately removes after this email. (I have a copy on my computer)
Secondly, I checked it using SafeAssign Software (plagiarism detection software) by Blackboard.
It is similar to popular "Turnitin" software. The report from the software tells that 90% of the contents are suspected of plagiarism. A part of the report can be found at this link
https://docs.google.com/open?
Thirdly, whilst I am no expert in the field of topics contained in the document so-called PhD thesis
of Zarni, as someone who has done a PhD successfully at a top British University, I feel authorised
to state my OPINION having personally read the document believed to be a thesis that
1. his PhD thesis is not in an appropriate format
2. the language and the style is not up to the PhD level
3. I found no critical analysis or argument to draw an intellectual conclusion
Most or all of you have done a PhD. Please read it and tell me it is worthy of a PhD!!!!
If the document I am referring to at www.pyinnya.com/wp-content/
Finally, my email may or may not be POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED. However, everything I stated is what I seriously and honestly believe out of my own investigation and are mere opinions. There are NO FABRICATIONS. My motivation, however, MUST NOT give immunity to Maung Zarni from escaping punishment should he have committed plagiarism. Whether Maung Zarni committed plagiarism or not is INDEPENDENT of my political motivation, and is also independent of my personal like and dislike of him.
If you can clarify my doubts against each of the above mentioned points/reasons, I will apologise Maung Zarni.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Nyein Chan
Lecturer in Mathematics'
awake at nights worrying for research, dissertation and papers, licked ego-bruising wounds,
swallowed pride, occasionally faced rejections, drifted hopelessly in uncertainties, sighed
seriously at thin wallets and drained bank accounts, supplemented meager stipends with
part-time, quarreled with supporting wives, felt sorrow for not being able to provide, gotten
sick with peers and professors, worried for future job prospects, just for a degree, a three
letter word with some dots. Yes we have suffered all those hardships along the pursuits of
terminal and doctoral degrees at postgraduate schools.
By doing so, we learned the trade, we observed the tricks, we think we can spot the dust in
the sleek operators, snake oil dealing fakers whom we name and shame in this humble blog.
Dr. Nyein Chan is one such person. Below is his statement (in his own words) why does he
think that Maung Zar Ni is faking his PhD. Of course, we do know some supervisors have
vetted their candidates unworthy for a PhD degree the right to call themselves Dr." So will
our sufferings become all for nothing, no way! This blog is born to name and shame fakers.
Without further ado, I present Dr. Nyein Chan to present research findings and conclusions.
'Dear Sirs and Madams,
I am Dr Nyein Chan. I write to you regarding the PhD thesis of Mr Maung Zarni (or Dr Zarni
has he prefers to be called). In particular, I am referring to this person:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/
I understand that it has been confirmed by the University of Wisconsin at Madison that Maung
Zarni has indeed been awarded with a PhD. This still does not stop me from investigating further.
I hereby make you known that I genuinely, seriously and honestly have doubts in the academic authenticity and legitimacy of Zarni's PhD thesis for reasons stated below.
Firstly, his so-called PhD thesis can be found at
www.pyinnya.com/wp-content/
unless someone immediately removes after this email. (I have a copy on my computer)
Secondly, I checked it using SafeAssign Software (plagiarism detection software) by Blackboard.
It is similar to popular "Turnitin" software. The report from the software tells that 90% of the contents are suspected of plagiarism. A part of the report can be found at this link
https://docs.google.com/open?
Thirdly, whilst I am no expert in the field of topics contained in the document so-called PhD thesis
of Zarni, as someone who has done a PhD successfully at a top British University, I feel authorised
to state my OPINION having personally read the document believed to be a thesis that
1. his PhD thesis is not in an appropriate format
2. the language and the style is not up to the PhD level
3. I found no critical analysis or argument to draw an intellectual conclusion
Most or all of you have done a PhD. Please read it and tell me it is worthy of a PhD!!!!
If the document I am referring to at www.pyinnya.com/wp-content/
Finally, my email may or may not be POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED. However, everything I stated is what I seriously and honestly believe out of my own investigation and are mere opinions. There are NO FABRICATIONS. My motivation, however, MUST NOT give immunity to Maung Zarni from escaping punishment should he have committed plagiarism. Whether Maung Zarni committed plagiarism or not is INDEPENDENT of my political motivation, and is also independent of my personal like and dislike of him.
If you can clarify my doubts against each of the above mentioned points/reasons, I will apologise Maung Zarni.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.
Yours sincerely,
Dr Nyein Chan
Lecturer in Mathematics'
Sunday, 20 January 2013
Top 10 sources of blog visitors during last week
Myanmar [Burma] 181
United States 97
Taiwan 59
Malaysia 47
Brunei 38
United Kingdom 31
Saudi Arabia 25
Singapore 22
Australia 17
Germany 15
United States 97
Taiwan 59
Malaysia 47
Brunei 38
United Kingdom 31
Saudi Arabia 25
Singapore 22
Australia 17
Germany 15
Thursday, 17 January 2013
ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား, ေဒါက္တာ စိုးရင္ and Dr. Dr. blogger
Your blogger learned that Dr. Soe Yin, a law maker, a MP from the parliament of Myanmar, is going to sue ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား, an online entity like your humble blogger who expresses her opinions behind the safety of an on-line mask. Since your humble blogger is not sure whether that ေဒါက္တာ စိုးရင္ or ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား are fake PhDs or medical doctors with MBBSes, you readers should not expect comments nor opinions here. But it is very funny to see law makers are busy with petty issues such as proposing to sue the no-name Facebook personality like ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား. Wow! my mother land, beautiful Burma, has democracy now!!!!!
So this ေဒါက္တာ ေဒါက္တာ blogger who has earned double doctorates is now thinking whether should he or she stops blogging as feeling wary of law suits.
So this ေဒါက္တာ ေဒါက္တာ blogger who has earned double doctorates is now thinking whether should he or she stops blogging as feeling wary of law suits.
Saturday, 12 January 2013
Congratulations for driving a faker out of academia!
Maung Zar Ni is a popular fellow at this hall of shame. Let us reflect this as a case study. For the knowledge of our readers we will report you as a whole as we have been presenting you piece after piece.
Since early 2000s, we have learned that there is no thesis of Maung Zar Ni at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But we did not pay attention. However, our suspicions grow, alarm bells in our scholarly bodies rang, and signals that there is a faker out there amplified in recent years. We got gut feelings that he is faking PhD after reading articles after articles of his unbalanced lope-sided writings in popular on-line publications. His writings, anything but scholarly, prompted us to start investigating him. When we were quite certain that he is very likely to be a fake, we have given him
a chance to prove himself otherwise. We offered that if he can send his thesis, we will remove him from this hall of shame of faking PhDs. To make sure that we did our research right and presented our case clearly to you via this blog. We have presented our research question, methodology, tools, findings, conclusions here. Therefore, till now, our stand remains the same, until he sends us his PhD thesis, he is a fake PhD for us.
Recently, it seems to us that we are seeing some progresses ranges from uncommitted replies from administrators from the US, UK and ASEAN universities and now the resignation letter of our man with fake PhD. Congratulations to Dr. Nyein Chan, other Drs. and wanna-be Drs who have heavily contributed to this blog to take down a fake PhD, Maung Zar Ni.
We congratulate your efforts such as sending tips, talking to librarian of UW-Madison, checking whether the degree was conferred to the suspect with the university academic director, discussing with HR staff at the London School of Economics, initiating the communication and following up with UBD, getting opinions from few Burmese and foreign academics at London universities and running the plagiarism check of that random collection of sentences and paragraphs in an Adobe Acrobat file which he claims as his PhD thesis. We have read that pdf file but we find it hard to believe it is a thesis, especially from a university like the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a public ivy.
In fact, academia is already tainted by in-competent researchers who cannot publish or publish in fake journals and swamped by un-committed lecturers who cannot teach but merely rumble, so it is unbearable to see fake PhDs doing fake research and tutoring rubbish. So congratulations Drs and Dr Drs.
Since early 2000s, we have learned that there is no thesis of Maung Zar Ni at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But we did not pay attention. However, our suspicions grow, alarm bells in our scholarly bodies rang, and signals that there is a faker out there amplified in recent years. We got gut feelings that he is faking PhD after reading articles after articles of his unbalanced lope-sided writings in popular on-line publications. His writings, anything but scholarly, prompted us to start investigating him. When we were quite certain that he is very likely to be a fake, we have given him
a chance to prove himself otherwise. We offered that if he can send his thesis, we will remove him from this hall of shame of faking PhDs. To make sure that we did our research right and presented our case clearly to you via this blog. We have presented our research question, methodology, tools, findings, conclusions here. Therefore, till now, our stand remains the same, until he sends us his PhD thesis, he is a fake PhD for us.
Recently, it seems to us that we are seeing some progresses ranges from uncommitted replies from administrators from the US, UK and ASEAN universities and now the resignation letter of our man with fake PhD. Congratulations to Dr. Nyein Chan, other Drs. and wanna-be Drs who have heavily contributed to this blog to take down a fake PhD, Maung Zar Ni.
We congratulate your efforts such as sending tips, talking to librarian of UW-Madison, checking whether the degree was conferred to the suspect with the university academic director, discussing with HR staff at the London School of Economics, initiating the communication and following up with UBD, getting opinions from few Burmese and foreign academics at London universities and running the plagiarism check of that random collection of sentences and paragraphs in an Adobe Acrobat file which he claims as his PhD thesis. We have read that pdf file but we find it hard to believe it is a thesis, especially from a university like the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a public ivy.
In fact, academia is already tainted by in-competent researchers who cannot publish or publish in fake journals and swamped by un-committed lecturers who cannot teach but merely rumble, so it is unbearable to see fake PhDs doing fake research and tutoring rubbish. So congratulations Drs and Dr Drs.
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