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balancedsentiments · Joined: 03 Jul 2012 Posts: 32

Quite a few people have lost their jobs at the college I teach at. We were told about a year ago that qualifications were being checked. I'm not sure who has been investigating. It could be college HR, MoM, MoHE or whoever, but irregularities were found and a number of lecturers had their contracts terminated last month. A couple were from the ELC and the rest from the academic departments. I think it's a good move forward to improve the quality of teaching. I'm surprised that no one has mentioned this. Is my college the only one where this has happened?

Partizan · Joined: 11 Jan 2013 Posts: 61

balqis · Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 373

From my in situ observation these notorious qualification reviews by MoHE/MoM had very little to do with what they claimed they were doing.
In most cases I witnessed it was used as a weapon, to gun down those not popular with Deans or HoDs.

Sleepwalker · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 454 Location: Reading the screen

There is some looking around at diploma mill certification but I'm not sure if anyone is looking at checking authenticity. I suspect Balqis is accurate.

Hemlock32 · Joined: 14 Apr 2017 Posts: 69

Here in Qatar the same thing happened as well last month. Some colleagues without the correct qualifications were either let go or they were demoted. Some 9 staff I heard "resigned" from their post in the ELC department. Personally, I thought it was because they had run their course, and were looking for new adventures.