Your online degree could be fake
Dec 18, 2007
DID you know that an online university qualification you may have acquired could be fake? Several universities have come up to answer to the growing demand for higher education. Because of this demand, some people have set up illegal institutions.
By Juliet Waiswa
DID you know that an online university qualification you may have acquired could be fake? Several universities have come up to answer to the growing demand for higher education. Because of this demand, some people have set up illegal institutions.
A survey of institutions of higher learning by the National Council for Higher Education, (NCHE) 2004 and data collected from higher institutions in 2005 indicates that the quality of higher education delivery is declining, yet students and parents prefer universities to other institutions, no matter the study programmes.
Among the major causes of the decline in quality education delivery is the growing number of online institutions. The State for Higher Education in Uganda, 2006 report has realised that the majority of online institutions were illegal. All institutions that are not licensed are illegal.
According to the NCHE assistant executive director, Ambassador Yeko Acato, online universities have not contacted NCHE for evaluation. All universities operating in Uganda should be licensed under the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act (2001). “We don’t know whether people from these countries recognise and study in those institutions, or whether the programmes are also taught in their countries,†Acato says.
DID you know that an online university qualification you may have acquired could be fake? Several universities have come up to answer to the growing demand for higher education. Because of this demand, some people have set up illegal institutions.
A survey of institutions of higher learning by the National Council for Higher Education, (NCHE) 2004 and data collected from higher institutions in 2005 indicates that the quality of higher education delivery is declining, yet students and parents prefer universities to other institutions, no matter the study programmes.
Among the major causes of the decline in quality education delivery is the growing number of online institutions. The State for Higher Education in Uganda, 2006 report has realised that the majority of online institutions were illegal. All institutions that are not licensed are illegal.
According to the NCHE assistant executive director, Ambassador Yeko Acato, online universities have not contacted NCHE for evaluation. All universities operating in Uganda should be licensed under the Universities and Other Tertiary Institutions Act (2001). “We don’t know whether people from these countries recognise and study in those institutions, or whether the programmes are also taught in their countries,†Acato says.