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		<title>Cameroon&#8217;s Fraudulent Diploma Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The higher education qualification commission in Cameroon has exposed more than 300 instances of fraudulent diplomas for qualifications issued abroad.  Nearly 30% of the credentials presented to the commission for equivalency determination turned out to be fraudulent, and the vast majority (291 of 308) were faked Chad Baccalaureats.   As a result of the growing problem of fraudulent credentials being used in all sectors of Cameroonian society, the prime minister has recommended that job applicants for both the public and private [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=925</link>
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		<title>UK&#8217;s New University Technical College System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The United Kingdom is about to debut a new type of educational opportunity for those in the 14- to 19-year-old age category: the University Technical College (UTC).  This new technical school will focus on vocational education and work-based learning to train its graduates on the skills needed to become builders, engineers, and technicians.  Expected to open beginning next year, this new type of institution will differ from further education colleges that already offer vocational training to this age group, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=917</link>
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		<title>Libya&#8217;s Diploma Ring Scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Libyan professor at Misurata University who was assigned to review grades and degree plans for students at the school inadvertently stumbled onto a far-reaching crime ring involving  22 universities, students, and faculty.  Rasheed Meheeshy was  imprisoned in mid-May after some of his students claimed that he sexually harassed them (an accusation he claims was made up to discredit or get revenge on him), but he had already expelled students and fired 11 faculty members involved in the fake diploma [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=920</link>
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		<title>TOEFL in Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The TOEFL is back on in Iran!  ETS announced a few days ago that testing for both TOEFL and GRE are again available in Iran thanks to new routes for registration and payment that are UN-approved.
More details can be found online at http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/30/world/middleeast/30testing.html
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		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=914</link>
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		<title>U.S. Undocumented Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chronicle of Higher Education has been full of good international education reads this week!  Just the other day, it posted a short but fascinating look at the United States&#8217; general policy &#8211; or lack thereof &#8211; regarding higher education and undocumented students.  As people who used to work in higher education at a public institution in a border state, undocumented students were a significant population, and we found this glimpse into the rest of the country very interesting.
http://chronicle.com/article/States-Take-Varying-Approaches/123683/?sid=at&#38;utm_source=at&#38;utm_medium=en
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		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=908</link>
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		<title>Pakistan&#8217;s Degree Scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve held off on commenting on the ongoing scandal in Pakistan about the growing numbers of government officials with fraudulent degrees because we were waiting to see if there would be any government decision or action.  However, it looks like they&#8217;re going to continue to hedge their bets and not make a decision if they don&#8217;t have to.  To summarize the situation, Pakistan&#8217;s Supreme Court is asking parliamentarians to prove that they currently meet the requirements of a law that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=906</link>
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		<title>Connecting with Study Abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t normally post articles about Study Abroad since there are already several wonderful blogs that focus on that arena, but the article we read this morning in the Chronicle of Higher Education was just too fascinating not to share.
http://chronicle.com/article/Colleges-Help-Students-to/123653/?sid=at&#38;utm_source=at&#38;utm_medium=en
Colleges Help Students to Translate the Benefits of Study Abroad

By Ilana Kowarski
Clemson University administrators were troubled by what they  discovered on YouTube in the summer of 2008. Students at the university  had posted videos of themselves drinking and partying [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=904</link>
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		<title>TOEFL Suspended in Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ETS, the company that runs the TOEFL, just announced that they are no longer registering students for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) in Iran in response to new sanctions against Iran that have been adopted by the UN and the US.  There rationale is that they are unable to handle payments from Iran as a result of these new sanctions.  IELTS, a British-based competitor of the TOEFL, continues to be available in Iran.
For more details and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=902</link>
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		<title>More than 100 Colleges Closed in Zimbabwe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the Ministry of Higher Education closed 106 private tertiary colleges due to illegal operations.  Most of the students enrolled at these institutions nationwide were enrolled in mid-year exams.  Many of the lecturers at the colleges are reputed to be untrained teachers and even those who left school without degrees while the staff are secondary-school leavers.
Unfortunately, none of the articles reporting on this topic included a complete list of the institutions that were closed, and the MOHE website does [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.transcriptresearch.com/?p=900</link>
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		<title>Mozambique&#8217;s New Credit System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The government of Mozambique recently approved the National Academic Credits Accumulation and Transfer System.   This will allow students in higher education institutions in Mozambique greater flexibility in attending different institutions, changing majors, or completing programs at a faster pace.
More information can be found online at  http://allafrica.com/stories/201006300948.html
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