Government acts against fake degree holders

Kuwait has started taking measures to determine reasons behind the spread of fake university certificates and to prevent the use of such certificates in the future, after the Ministry of Higher Education in Kuwait referred 259 people found to be holding fake degrees to the courts, reports Arab Times/

In a statement to Kuwait News Agency KUNA, Minister of Education and Higher Education Bader Al-Issa revealed: “We have referred them to the prosecution to take all the legal procedures against them, because they have received these certificates unlawfully.”

In February 2015, Al-Fanar Media published a series of reports highlighting a global network of fake online universities that use aggressive marketing to provide fake scholarships to lure students in and steal their money to end up with worthless degrees. Then last May, The New York Times published two reports on fake universities that grant unaccredited degrees, pointing out that 3,142 people working in Gulf countries had received such degrees, including 278 people working in Kuwait. “Unfortunately, the reports were true,” said Nouria Al-Awadi, director general of the National Bureau for Academic Accreditation and Education Quality Assurance.
Full report on the Arab Times site