Thursday 28 November 2013

PhDs handed out to plagarizers who produced craps

Sometimes, Ph.Ds from real universities can be handed out to plagarizers
who wrote crappy dissertations with cooperation of corrupted professors!

Germany's Ph.D. Scandal: Were Degrees Bought?
By Tristana Moore / Berlin Friday, Aug. 28, 2009, Time Magazine

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1919339,00.html

Tuesday 26 November 2013

For less than two grands you could buy a Ph.D!

Psst. Wanna Buy a Ph.D.?

By Thomas Bartlett and Scott Smallwood for The Chronicle of HED

http://chronicle.com/article/Psst-Wanna-Buy-a-PhD-/24239

A presentation about fake PhDs by Prof. Gollin from UIUC

An excellent presentation that'd give you idea how to investigate diploma
mills and their clients, fake doctorate PhDs. This is the work of Professor
George Gollin from the department of Physics at the Univ of Illinois at UC.

http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/diploma_mills.pdf

More of his work can be read here: http://web.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/

Monday 18 November 2013

Kanbawza Win's Washington International U PhD

The credit for this hall of shame's appointment goes to Dr. Nyein Chan for giving this
evidence that Kanbawza Win's PhD is not from an accredited university, but from the
unaccredited Washington International University, a diploma mill. Kanbawza Win's
credentials can be learned from the link below:

http://www.slideshare.net/myothein19/calendar-2011-burmese-20110101

Check this out to learn Washington International University: http://www.washint.edu/

And for curious mind, learn from the Wiki link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_International_University

The Washington International University is registered in British Virgin Islands for $ollars
making business purposes where legal loopholes exist despite being a UK overseas territory.

Director-General U Kyi Soe with a diploma mill PhD!

Author Gustaaf Houtman has exposed a fake Burmese PhD who has been performing the
duties of the director general of Department of Health Planning(p.115, Mental Culture in
Burmese Crisis Politics: Aung San Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy,
Gustaaf Houtman).

Not convinced? The phony credentials can be confirmed below in one's self-promotion:

Dr. U Kyi Soe, Ph.D. (Western Pacific)
Director-General, Department of Health Planning (1997 to date)

http://www.thisismyanmar.com/myanmars/medical-who-myanmar.pdf

Western Pacific is a well known infamous diploma mill, officially declared as a fake
university which offers bogus PhD degrees for a few thousands of dollars. Read GAO
report here: "http://www.gao.gov/htext/d04771t.html".

Fake Dr. O'Bagy, another phony expert, was exposed!

Fake PhD Elizabeth O'Bagy, the phony foreign policy expert, the earnest campaigner for Free
Syrian Army who are trying to topple Dr. Assad, is fired for false PhD claims. However, the
Secretary of United States, his excellency John Kerry and senator John McCain thought she
was a real expert, a real PhD doctor. The Huffy Puffy reports below:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/11/elizabeth-obagy-fired-syria_n_3908341.html

We welcome this self-styled Syrian expert to our hall of shame although she is not a Burmese
for there are many phony Burmese experts with fake Ph.Ds who are messing Burmese nation.
Your humble blogger wants you to know that even almighty Uncle Sam, formally known as
the government of United States can be duped.

Saturday 24 August 2013

PhDs taught and mentored by a fake PhD?

The United States International University is a diploma mill for it is not accredited.
Therefore anyone who claims to hold a PhD from there is a fake. If that faker is in
the faculty of a PhD program then PhDs trained there are likely to be sub-par PhDs,
only a little better than a fake or worse for being copies of the fake.

Your humble blogger is talking about the faculty of the Assumption University in
Bangkok, Thailand. See the list of tutors and mentors for PhD in Organizational
Development (PhD.O.D) in the brochure below:

http://www.graduate.au.edu/download/content/file/general/Brochures/MBA/PhDMOD.pdf

Readers might wonder, why a Thai university's faculty and PhD program sparked the
interest of this very Burmese scholastic blog? Your humble blogger is interested in it
because that Assumption University is offering that PhD.O.D to Burmese in Burma.

Using inductive reasoning based on facts we have, it is not possible to assert that it is
a fake PhD program. But it is a sub-par program for the following reasons:

[1] Its entry requirement are too lax.

There is a common wisdom that says this, "garbage in garbage out", so if entry bars
are set too low, if there is no stringent requirements, the output will more likely to be
sub-par - and and sub-par product is only as good as fake.

[2] Its graduation requirements are not rigorous, check the graduation requirements
in general. Attending two conferences is one of the graduation requirements, and
that item alone should have raise the intellectual alarms in any seasoned scholar.

[3] Its process is not reflective of a reputable PhD program, meaning not impressive:

Earning a PhD is a process, not only the product,that is the thesis and research papers
in prestigious journals, but the process counts. A good PhD program can transform a
twenty something into a competent researcher, a balanced reasoner and a trust-worthy
reporter of results. That is what research is about. You started with a question and you
improvise methods and designs experiments to gather facts, based on facts, analysis
are made, inductive or deductive reasoning and conclusions are made and those are
written down into a thick book called thesis.

Why this blogger says so is because there are two grammatical errors in one single
sentence in the graduation requirements. See Item 5 to spot no less than 5 errors!!!

The conclusion is that it is a sub-par degree, good enough for a taught or research
Master degree from a university in Thailand. It may make honest faculty members
of PhD programs in more reputable Thai universities feel shame.

Saturday 10 August 2013

Fakers and forgers around the globe united!!!

To give some relief to my fellow Myanmar people who might think there are so many fakers
and forgers among us. Take it easy, not only Burmese, there are so many Liberians, Nigerians, Pakistanis, Malaysians, Chinese and Indians among scum bags. Even better, or worse depends
on your interpretation, there are scum masters in United States, UK and Canada. So Relax.

A Physics professor become an expert in exposing fraudsters. He offer tools for exposers:

Information resources concerning unaccredited degree-granting institutions
http://www.hep.uiuc.edu/home/g-gollin/pigeons/

The story below tells how he was swept into the world of fakers and forgers to combat them.
Your humble blogger wants to add one more category, there are fraudsters who earned PhDs
by sucking their academic fathers. That is by making an unethical, explicit or implicit, sleazy
arrangement with their supervisors or mentors to let their universities accept those plagarized
PhD dissertations. In such scenarios, cleaners like your humble blogger and brothers in arms
are faced with choice but to take down their scholar daddies even if they are giants. Sometimes
asses of giants can be put on the hot firing lines.

Fraud U: Toppling a Bogus-Diploma Empire
By David Wolman
Wired Jan 2010

'It started with spam. On a quiet August day in 2002, a physics professor named George Gollin
was working in his office at the University of Illinois when an ad popped up on his computer
screen. The product on offer: college degrees.

In a nearby computer lab, the ads leaped from one monitor to another, seeming to spread like
a contagion. The spam barrage was raging across the Urbana-Champaign campus. “They were sending
bazillions of them, for weeks,” Gollin recalls. “It was like a telemarketer calling over and over.”
He decided to dial the phone number listed in the ad to find out who was behind the electronic
assault.

No one answered, so Gollin left a polite message. A few days later he received a call from a
man,speaking with what sounded like an Eastern European accent, who delivered a pitch for various
degree options from Parkwood University. Gollin, who is 56 and has a BA from Harvard and a PhD
from Princeton, listened in amazement as the man cheerfully explained how, for about $4,400, he
could supply a PhD in systems engineering.

Or if that wasn’t to Gollin’s liking, he could offer a doctorate in Germanic languages. Gollin
chuckled and shook his head. It was all rather amusing, the academic equivalent of a bad toupee
— anyone who looked closely could see that it was a fake.

Still, Gollin’s curiosity was piqued, so he decided to look up Parkwood University online.
At first glance, the Web site resembled that of any liberal arts college, complete with links for information on student services, academics, and faculty. With some Googling, Gollin discovered
that the course catalog for Parkwood had been copied wholesale from the University of Central Florida’s Web site.' -- snip snip --

'But one phony institution — a front called Saint Regis University — had something even better:
the Liberian connection.......'

Read more below:
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_fake_physics/

I want to give credit to the site below for above information. An interesting fact in the article below is that fakers and forgers are a threat to a nation. It is like cancer, it is a wart, a mole which is better removed before it grows too big.

Top 10 Online Diploma Mill Scams
By Lorna Collier
http://www.geteducated.com/diploma-mills-police/life-experience-college-degree/290-online-college-diploma-mill-cases



Sunday 14 July 2013

News about Fake PhDs reported in a Malaysian paper!!!!

Indian university suspected in fake PhDs scam: police
New Straits Time, Malaysia

SHILLONG, India: 'Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said.

Police have arrested four senior officials from CMJ University in the northeastern state of Meghalaya on suspicion of fraud and forgery and are hunting for the chancellor, who has fled.

“We are not sure about his whereabouts, as he keeps changing his location frequently,” senior state police official Sunil Kumar Jain told AFP.

The private university, established in 2009 in the state capital Shillong, handed out 434 PhDs during the 2012-13 academic year despite its small faculty, arousing suspicions among local officials who filed a police complaint.

A PhD at CMJ University takes between two to five years and costs 127,000 rupees ($2,250), according to its website.

“In good faith, the universities were given permission to operate, but some seem to have taken this for a ride and this is distressing,” said Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma.

Credentials fraud is a serious problem in India, fuelled by a huge demand  for qualifications, endemic corruption and poor regulation of the ultra-competitive and fast-growing education sector.

In 2011 a racket in fake airline pilot licences was exposed, while in 2010 police arrested the head of the national body responsible for certifying medical qualifications for allegedly accepting a bribe.'

For it is not legal or moral to post the original news, interested persons could go and read at below:




http://www.nst.com.my/latest/indian-university-suspected-in-fake-phds-scam-police-1.294228

Monday 17 June 2013

Conducting Kock Sucking 101 course for quick bucks.....

Your humble blogger is an old frail man who is struggling for his life and health every single day although he still has vigor for young ladies. Although he does not have time to update this blog, now he is proud to announce that one of hall of shame fellows, a fake PhD, is ready to serve you! He will speak for you at your service if  you want to run a seminar or workshop or symposium or conference or what-so-ever named, he is always ready to wiggle tail to please you.

He will shout for you, he will blog your story, he will prove that he has not earned a PhD by showing his analytical mind or lack there of, he will promote your side shamelessly. Not satisfied, he will give you head, I mean he will give you more of his brain power by rumbling. Know who he is? Clueless can read on.....

His specialty is "Kock Sucking 101", he will teach you how to shamelessly sell single sided story without intellectual analysis, for bucks". Interested? Email as your humble blogger gonna pimp!

Saturday 4 May 2013

Hullo Hullo, I am a PhD to help you write thesis for a suitable fee!

Your humble blogger is not happy or healthy, he is sick and sick of everything, but he thinks
he caught a good-sized fish today - the credit goes to a fan. That implies, he has found a fake
PhD or a forger, or a faker who should not put Dr. prefix in front of his or her name. A guy in
Yangon, who claims to have earned a PhD in English from London has written following:

'Hullo!! Do you need any help in English? I am ready to help you with suitable price.
When you come or phone call, you will know my abality in English.

My Address: No.101, Anawrahta road, Kyauktada township, Yangon, Myanmar.
Ph:- 0943039567. All will OK in English. OUR SERVICES Dissertation { Ph.D },
Thesis, Research Paper { Master }, Scholarship { e.g. Japan-[ JDS, YLP, Mext...],
Korea, Brunei.... University Admission Offer [ At home or abroad- e.g. - NUS, NTU,...]
Term Paper ( DBL, DML, DIL..), Contract, Affidavit Speech, Thanks, Presentation
(e.g. seminar, workshop...) Company's necessities; website, legal, Judicial, Medical, IT,
Literature... OUR CLASSES English Classes ( Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Ph.D
course) English for Business, Job seeking, Interview, TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, GCE English
for Kids (Starter, Flyer, Mover) Classes for Eighth, Ninth, Tenth Standard
**We also give English Advices to the needy people.'

Source: http://bominaung.grou.ps/people/rggzuaaumrhgqdwhk

That guy claims that he has earned a PhD (London). Your blogger infers that London
is Univ of London. Good for him.

However, the serious problem with his kind offer is that anyone who has studied up to the
high school education should be able to point out 2 spelling mistakes, similarly, anyone who
has learned English up to a degree level will be able to spot 3 contextual errors, all of them
in the very first sentence.

I hope that guy is joking. Read yourself! I would say if that guy has really earned a PhD in
English, your humble blogger will and should go and claim for a Noble (English) literature,
or a third PhD in English language.

Tuesday 23 April 2013

Been there, done that, learned and earned to doubt!

Some of us have been there, done that, paid dues, stayed hungry, endured abuses, stayed
awake at nights worrying for research, dissertation and papers, licked ego-bruising wounds,
swallowed pride, occasionally faced rejections, drifted hopelessly in uncertainties, sighed
seriously at thin wallets and drained bank accounts, supplemented meager stipends with
part-time, quarreled with supporting wives, felt sorrow for not being able to provide, gotten
sick with peers and professors, worried for future job prospects, just for a degree, a three
letter word with some dots. Yes we have suffered all those hardships along the pursuits of
terminal and doctoral degrees at postgraduate schools.

By doing so, we learned the trade, we observed the tricks, we think we can spot the dust in
the sleek operators, snake oil dealing fakers whom we name and shame in this humble blog.
Dr. Nyein Chan is one such person. Below is his statement (in his own words) why does he
think that Maung Zar Ni is faking his PhD. Of course, we do know some supervisors have
vetted their candidates unworthy for a PhD degree the right to call themselves Dr." So will
our sufferings become all for nothing, no way! This blog is born to name and shame fakers.
Without further ado, I present Dr. Nyein Chan to present research findings and conclusions.

'Dear Sirs and Madams,

I am Dr Nyein Chan. I write to you regarding the PhD thesis of Mr Maung Zarni (or Dr Zarni
has he prefers to be called). In particular, I am referring to this person:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/internationalDevelopment/research/CSHS/staff%20pages/maungZarni/maungZarni.aspx

I understand that it has been confirmed by the University of Wisconsin at Madison that Maung
Zarni has indeed been awarded with a PhD. This still does not stop me from investigating further.

I hereby make you known that I genuinely, seriously and honestly have doubts in the academic authenticity and legitimacy of Zarni's PhD thesis for reasons stated below.

Firstly, his so-called PhD thesis can be found at
www.pyinnya.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/knowledge_controlandpower_thepoliticsofeducationunderburma_smilitarydictatorship1.pdf
unless someone immediately removes after this email. (I have a copy on my computer)

Secondly, I checked it using SafeAssign Software (plagiarism detection software) by Blackboard.
It is similar to popular "Turnitin" software. The report from the software tells that 90% of the contents are suspected of plagiarism. A part of the report can be found at this link
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0BzmAL9-5BNZrdlhRaUt6WEl2c28

Thirdly, whilst I am no expert in the field of topics contained in the document so-called PhD thesis
of Zarni, as someone who has done a PhD successfully at a top British University, I feel authorised
to state my OPINION having personally read the document believed to be a thesis that
1. his PhD thesis is not in an appropriate format
2. the language and the style is not up to the PhD level
3. I found no critical analysis or argument to draw an intellectual conclusion

Most or all of you have done a PhD. Please read it and tell me it is worthy of a PhD!!!!

If the document I am referring to at www.pyinnya.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/knowledge_controlandpower_thepoliticsofeducationunderburma_smilitarydictatorship1.pdf is NOT Maung Zarni's PhD thesis, then I am sorry to be saying irrelevant matters, but I still strongly advise you to check Maung Zarni's PhD thesis both manually and electronically using a software like Turnitin or SafeAssign. If the document I am referring to is indeed a PhD thesis and if he has been awarded with a PhD for this, then I will next question the academic and personal integrity of some of the authorities concerned at UW Madison.

Finally, my email may or may not be POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED. However, everything I stated is what I seriously and honestly believe out of my own investigation and are mere opinions. There are NO FABRICATIONS. My motivation, however, MUST NOT give immunity to Maung Zarni from escaping punishment should he have committed plagiarism. Whether Maung Zarni committed plagiarism or not is INDEPENDENT of my political motivation, and is also independent of my personal like and dislike of him.

If you can clarify my doubts against each of the above mentioned points/reasons, I will apologise Maung Zarni.

Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you.

Yours sincerely,


Dr Nyein Chan
Lecturer in Mathematics'

Sunday 20 January 2013

Top 10 sources of blog visitors during last week

Myanmar [Burma]    181
United States              97
Taiwan                       59
Malaysia                    47
Brunei                        38
United Kingdom        31
Saudi Arabia              25
Singapore                   22
Australia                    17
Germany                    15

Thursday 17 January 2013

ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား, ေဒါက္တာ စိုးရင္ and Dr. Dr. blogger

Your blogger learned that Dr. Soe Yin, a law maker, a MP from the parliament of Myanmar, is going to sue  ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား, an online entity like your humble blogger who expresses her opinions behind the safety of an on-line mask. Since your humble blogger is not sure whether that ေဒါက္တာ စိုးရင္ or  ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား are fake PhDs or medical doctors with MBBSes, you readers should not expect comments nor opinions here. But it is very funny to see law makers are busy with petty issues such as proposing to sue the no-name Facebook personality like ေဒါက္တာ ဆိတ္ဖြား. Wow! my mother land, beautiful Burma, has democracy now!!!!!

So this  ေဒါက္တာ  ေဒါက္တာ blogger who has earned double doctorates is now thinking whether should he or she stops blogging as feeling wary of law suits.

Saturday 12 January 2013

Congratulations for driving a faker out of academia!

Maung Zar Ni is a popular fellow at this hall of shame. Let us reflect this as a case study. For the knowledge of our readers we will report you as a whole as we have been presenting you piece after piece.

Since early 2000s, we have learned that there is no thesis of Maung Zar Ni at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. But we did not pay attention. However, our suspicions grow, alarm bells in our scholarly bodies rang, and signals that there is a faker out there amplified in recent years. We got gut feelings that he is faking PhD after reading articles after articles of his unbalanced lope-sided writings in popular on-line publications. His writings, anything but scholarly, prompted us to start investigating him. When we were quite certain that he is very likely to be a fake, we have given him
a chance to prove himself otherwise. We offered that if he can send his thesis, we will remove him from this hall of shame of faking PhDs. To make sure that we did our research right and presented our case clearly to you via this blog. We have presented our research question, methodology, tools, findings, conclusions here. Therefore, till now, our stand remains the same, until he sends us his PhD thesis, he is a fake PhD for us.

Recently, it seems to us that we are seeing some progresses ranges from uncommitted replies from administrators from the US, UK and ASEAN universities and now the resignation letter of our man with fake PhD. Congratulations to Dr. Nyein Chan, other Drs. and wanna-be Drs who have heavily contributed to this blog to take down a fake PhD, Maung Zar Ni.

We congratulate your efforts such as sending tips, talking to librarian of UW-Madison, checking whether the degree was conferred to the suspect with the university academic director, discussing with HR staff at the London School of Economics, initiating the communication and following up with UBD, getting opinions from few Burmese and foreign academics at London universities and running the plagiarism check of that random collection of sentences and paragraphs in an Adobe Acrobat file which he claims as his PhD thesis. We have read that pdf file but we find it hard to believe it is a thesis, especially from a university like the University of Wisconsin at Madison, a public ivy.

In fact, academia is already tainted by in-competent researchers who cannot publish or publish in fake journals and swamped by un-committed lecturers who cannot teach but merely rumble, so it is unbearable to see fake PhDs doing fake research and tutoring rubbish. So congratulations Drs and Dr Drs.

Tuesday 8 January 2013

When you got fired or forced to leave, fake that you quit!!!

In the middle of a travel, your humble blogger has learned that one faker said quit to his employer.

Remember, your very humble blogger has not only earned 3 terminal post-graduate degrees, 2 professional degrees. But also he has been working or consulting private companies and public corporations of small, medium, large and mega-large sizes for more than 30 years. And he also teaches in 2 universities. So he knows about all work places those also include universities. Been there, done that, seen all.

Getting fired is nothing to feel sad or shame. It is part and parcel of professional lives although not for tenured professors who lose jobs unless they bonk a 17 years old freshman or a sophomore girls or both at the same time. Just don't say quit when you get fired. Don't do it. It is pathetic and people are not fools, they can sense fishy smell from thousands of miles away. We know that you are lying!

Read between the lines, I think our lad who publicly ranted "Long live my sugar daddies, who came through gaping holes in the western border of Burma, their man-meat I love to suck!" got fired from his employer, the only university in the small country. When you put foot in mouth, you get fired.

Thursday 3 January 2013

The breakdown of last week traffic source nations

United States         96

Russia                    78

Myanmar [Burma] 70

Sweden                  60

United Kingdom   43

Saudi Arabia         38

Japan                     31

Australia                27

Malaysia                25

Poland                   11