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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Sunday, July 2, 2017
Honorary doctorate (PhD) Scam in Sri Lanka!
(July 2, 2017, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian)
Some of the university officials in Sri Lanka have been engaging in
highly damaging scam for awarding honorary doctorate to corrupted,
inappropriate, unsuitable, undesirable, unfit, and incapable candidate
driven by personal advantages, reliable sources in the University Grants
Commission (UGC) and the University insiders particularly at the
University of Peradeniya have revealed.
Senior staff members of some of the universities along with their
external associates are scheming to award such corrupted crooks with
honorary doctorate so then they can become beneficiaries of the promises
made by the candidate such as foreign trips and financial assistances.
“This sort of manipulative activities are likely to seriously damage the
status quo of the university and then we will lose the educational
reputation of the institutions”, a reliable source in the University
Grants Commission told the Sri Lanka Guardian.
There were series of incidents reported where some highly corrupted
local and regional Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), as well as
some of the individuals, were urging to nominate them for honorary
doctorates by the universities through some of the senior staffs by
promising them for various beneficiaries. If this modus operandi is
successful, it will not only damage the reputation of the university
but also is likely to decrease the respect of entire education system in
Sri Lanka.
“ There is no doubt that of our Universities have the authority to award
an Honorary Doctorate to a person who has made exceptional or
reasonably valued contribution to the subject that he or she is involved
in. But, the most important aspect must concern the reputation the
person has earned and how he or she has achieved the available
achievements. We believe all universities and other relevant authorities
must establish the serious screening system to cross check the
candidate’s claim independently”, a reliable source at the University of
Peradeniya said.
Compared with other universities in the region, the universities in Sri
Lanka are still maintaining high standards and they have taken all
precautions to protect the code of ethics to maintain the reputation
earned by others in the past.
However, it is indeed sad to learn that some of the bugs in the
universities are trying to destroy the dignity and are tarnishing the
image by engaging in such activities.
We urge vice chancellors and higher officials at the UGC to take
immediate action to monitor, evaluate and prevent such unethical and
awkward schemes involved in, by certain parties in the university system
in Sri Lanka, before it causes damage the country.