Tuesday, 16 August 2016

Fake Doctorate Degrees Influx in Ghana.






University, in Valdosta USA, has provided a list of unaccredited tertiary institutions and names of prominent Ghanaians who got their doctorate degrees from these schools.

The report has said that these are not accredited and therefore are not recognized.

Dr P. Armah, the Executive Director for VIAM Africa Center for Education and Social Policy, in an exclusive interview said, it is as a result of a failure of institutional arrangement to address it and largely so because the national accreditation board has the mandate to regulate and supervise the quality of our education and also the granting of and revocation of accreditation to higher educational institutions. I would largely say that they should properly monitor and regulate the activities of universities that award such certifications to people.

He further said there are some requirements from an institution before they can award degrees and that accreditation must come from an accreditation body to an institution.

An investigative report published by Dr Prosper Yao Tsikata and Dr A. Kobla Dotse titled, The Accreditation Challenges in Transnational Educational Ecology: The Ghanaian Experience has listed out names of those who got this awards.

Here are the individuals who have purportedly gotten degrees from questionable universities in the U.S:

Dr. Hassan Ayariga- Atlantic International University, Hawaii (Not Accredited by OPE, listed as unaccredited by the National Accreditation Board, Faced Consumer Protection law suit for being unaccredited.), Dr. Sherry Ayittey, Dr. Kofi Portuphy, Dr. Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey, Dr. Gifty Anti, Dr. Bernard Otabil, Dr. John Kudalor (IGP), Dr. Kwasi Appiah- Dayspring Christian University and Affiliates (Discredited by NAB on September 18, 2014).

Other names in the Valdosta State University's report include:

Aquinas Tawiah Quansah (B.A.) Almeda College/University ( Unaccredited by the OPE, Boast Council for Distance Education, Interfaith Education Ministry & Association for Online Academic Excellence accreditations, Folded up), Dzifa Aku Ativor (BS.c. & M.A.) American Century University (Unaccredited by the OPE, Classified diploma mill [Foreign Credits International Experts, 2013]).

Hamidu Abdul-Lateef

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