"Grand PhD"

Yup. There's such a thing as a "Grand PhD", if you believe the claims of one "Prof Dr" H. Sandhu, the Chief Executive Officer of the bogus "Irish International University", which was blogged here recently (and here a while back). Thanks to Idlan who did some further serious digging here, we now know that not only does this Mr Sandhu have a "Grand PhD" from Belgium, he possesses a Certified DBA (Oxford) and an Euro MBA (Cambridge) - all issued by his very own dubious institutions no doubt.

With all this outlandish claims and fancy college names such as Oxbridge College, and Irish International University (which if you haven't realised by now, doesn't exist in Ireland), I sometimes wonder if the "victims" of these institutions i.e., the "innocent" students seeking further education and life-long learning are really victims, or are instead willing and interested parties in this game of deception.

If anything, the students might be learning the footsteps of this Mr H. Sandhu on how creating bogus credentials and outlandish titles might actually make you some decent money and get you places - including hobnobbing with the rich and famous like some deputy ministers. If that is the case, do they deserve our sympathy?

Was for example, one Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim, UMNO Putera's chief who proudly paraded his Masters in Business Administration from a certain "prestigious" Preston University ("one of the oldest universities in the United States"), which was found out to be bogus, deserving of our sympathy or contempt and ridicule?

Hmmm....