BARBADIANS have been put on guard against bogus institutions that offer certificates that are not worth the paper on which they are printed.
This caution is coming from Minister of Education Ronald Jones, who said that an increase in educational programmes being offered by overseas institutions could lead to locals obtaining certification that is not recognised.
Jones said fraudulent and bogus qualifications could be now stopped as a result of a National Qualifications Register, part of the National Qualifications Framework (NQF), which was launched recently.
“We have come across one or two people in Barbados who have had these types of qualifications, including at the doctoral level, so you have to be so careful . . . . We cannot allow persons to be [in] schools – medical doctors, whatever – practising their craft and then to check that the qualification that they have . . . is not worth anything; that there is really no specific body of knowledge that they are providing to those that sit before them or with them,” Jones said. (TB)
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