When I go to an internet shop in Port Moresby, there are often people in booths making false educational certificates.
It is so easy to scan a certificate and then replace the name, subjects, results, and headmaster's signature.
At times there are diplomas changing owners at the hands of a forger.
The forgers have a flash drive with a range of specimen words to choose from.
A forged certificate can be ready in 10 minutes. The client stands ready to give approval. It sure beats study.
It comes down to the fact that certificates can not be relied on. There has to be an entry test to be used by private business and the public service.
Employers need to send all certificates to the Measurement Support Unit of the Department of Education for authentication.
What happens when overseas diplomas are forged?
I was once training manager of a security firm. At one intake, there were 89 applicants with grade 10 certificates.
I produced my own test that could be passed only by applicants who had actually been to school. Seventy failed.
What are tectonic plates? These are made in the highlands for tourists. FAIL
In what month is the Grade 10 Written Expression exam? Nov. FAIL
What is the symbol for sodium? two crossed bones. FAIL.
What is a noun? It is an insect? FAIL.
What is your name? Peter Rava. FAIL
In what subjects did you gain credits? Maths. FAIL.
What was your headmaster's name? Mr Fuba. FAIL.
This student has not been to high school. Yet his grade 10 certificate gave him high passes in English and Social Science.
In other countries, police use the same technique. A driver is pulled over in his car. Let me see your license, driver.
What is your birth date? Ummm. 23 June 1993. FAIL
What colour eyes do you have? Ummm. Blue. FAIL.
Get out of the car driver.
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I think I would like to be a physiotherapist. My cousin has a certificate.
What happens when overseas diplomas are forged?
I was once training manager of a security firm. At one intake, there were 89 applicants with grade 10 certificates.
I produced my own test that could be passed only by applicants who had actually been to school. Seventy failed.
What are tectonic plates? These are made in the highlands for tourists. FAIL
In what month is the Grade 10 Written Expression exam? Nov. FAIL
What is the symbol for sodium? two crossed bones. FAIL.
What is a noun? It is an insect? FAIL.
What is your name? Peter Rava. FAIL
In what subjects did you gain credits? Maths. FAIL.
What was your headmaster's name? Mr Fuba. FAIL.
This student has not been to high school. Yet his grade 10 certificate gave him high passes in English and Social Science.
In other countries, police use the same technique. A driver is pulled over in his car. Let me see your license, driver.
What is your birth date? Ummm. 23 June 1993. FAIL
What colour eyes do you have? Ummm. Blue. FAIL.
Get out of the car driver.
************
I think I would like to be a physiotherapist. My cousin has a certificate.
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