DUPED, ARE YOU?

Nowadays, most people is desperate to have degrees - be it Bachelor's, Master's @ PhD - because their importance is very much significant that it's likening to be some sort of a guarantee when one is in the hunt for jobs in the real world but the question remains - do you know what you gonna do with it, say if it's a fake?

Out of deprivation to be self-enriched and superior to others, one dares to spend on education - even if it's a bogus degree - Who cares anyway; I got the qualification, I do my job, get paid, my employee happy & end of story!

Some even desperately go for instant degrees - which popped out from now where - and the number of cases involved is alarming as reported in today's The Star. Click here.

According to experts, the sprouting of the rogue degrees are spurred by the needs of current demand especially in the career based line. People is indeed in the need of grooming so deeply that they even cut straight through ego for a better life.

The news started to sell like hot cakes when everyone rallies to see for themselves lists of institutions worldwide that had been band by JPA in that matter.

One of the victims mentioned that he's duped by the scam and the fact that some SPM drop-outs having MBA puzzled me.

A dupe is someone being a victim of deception intentionally, leaving him/her clueless. So, how on Earth someone's with a reputation of high achievements and better still, a PhD holder being duped? Is it not implying that the culprit is but a dork at the very first place - in his capacity as an academia, didn't he know his alma matter? How can he be clueless about the existence of an univ. who's going to confer him an honorarium later?

Then, there's this case of individual getting MBA from never-to-be-heard type of university oversea - who failed to sit for SPM let alone passing - consuming spaces and doing nothing in our already cramped career waiting list.

Are all of these portraying a good image to us? Seriously, no. Forget about image and other things, let's focus on reality; One can has hundreds of degrees, twenty master's and eleven PhD's but for what? Worthy to be in the hall of fame, that's for sure but to me one is still a wacko even with thousands of degrees qualification if one still can't tell between a truth @ lie. Worse still, what more if it's a fake one.

Einstein is no scholar in his heyday - being a patent officer and part time researcher in the Univ. of Zurich, Swistzerland before his theory is granted - yet, he is one of the greatest physicist ever. So, how many degrees did he have?

Nope, I'm not anti-education & harboring jealousy. In fact, the more people having post-grads degrees the better. In a way, it's in handy with the nation's vision to have at least a number of 60,000 PhD holders by 2020 not including Master's. Click here.

I'm curious about what's going to happen in the near future when bogus degrees begin to be rooted in our society. Somehow, the government is signaling a green-light to the invasion of rogue degrees by allowing underground colleges whose operating on money-business selling degrees to be established in Malaysia.

Sincerely, I would say, it's not how many degrees you have but how many degrees (successful people under your supervision) you produced that counts.