The advisor to the Minister of State for Higher Education in the UAE, Dr. Badr Abul-Ela, that the fake certificates have become a global phenomenon, and has become easily accessible to anyone through fake offices spread around the world and online, pointing out that it has come to grant diplomas and Ph.D. Cats and dogs, as well as the use of advertising methods to promote these certificates including the temptation of the customer to purchase a scientific certificate and get the other for free.
During the symposium on "the scourge of forged certificates" held today at the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Abu Al-Ela pointed out that there are about 2500 institutions around the world that grant fake degrees. The actual Ph.D. degrees earned in the United States each year are about 40 to 45,000 while the number of fake PhDs exceeds 50,000.
He pointed out that the increasing access to degrees through e-learning, accompanied by a steady increase in the offices selling certificates, pointing out that in Beijing alone there are 100 offices to sell certificates were counted in 2013 and the return of fraudulent certificates yields more than 200 billion annually is sold A. Fake certificates from unauthorized and fake institutions
Abul-Ela said that recently in dozens of countries in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), there have been dozens of cases of fraud or false academic certificates covering a wide range of disciplines, and some of the false certificates belong to officials, managers and others in positions of power, which calls for the need to take a serious attitude The authorities concerned before they increase and their repercussions on society.
He suggested banning the appointment and reporting of forged certificate holders, requiring all government and private sector employers to ensure that their certificates are correct and equivalent, organizing the process of advertising education and training institutions, enacting legislation regulating advertising for education and training institutions, and legislation at the federal level requiring all parties to Recruitment to ensure the validity of the certificates of workers, and legislation obliges all recruitment agencies to report the participants in the fraud of certificates to the concerned authorities and legislation criminalizing the establishment of the issuers of fake and forged certificates and deal with
He pointed out that the fake certificates include fake certificates, false certificates and certificates that lack credibility, calling for the importance of awareness through advertising in the various means of publishing the bodies that falsify the certificates to warn of dealing with them, and publishing in various media about the seriousness of the use of false certificates and its negative effects On the individuals involved and on the community