One of the numerous Ghanaians fingered as having received an honorary doctorate from a University not accredited to hand them out has come out forcefully to deny his doctorate is a fake one.
John Gatsi, a lecturer at the University of Cape Coast, denies that the Swiss Management Centre (SMC), which handed him his doctorate, are not accredited to hand them out.
In an sms sent to the press disputing the content of the research paper carried out by two Ghanaians in the US, he claims the Institute is accredited both locally and internationally.
“The report is not true,” he said in the text, sighted by Starrfmonline.
“SMC University has ACBSP Accreditation. ACBSP is a globally recognized Accreditation for Business Schools and Programs.
“SMC University is also registered with National Accreditation Board (NAB), Ghana as a foreign University since 2012. NAB has renewed SMC University’s institutional Registration for another 3 years; August 2015 – July 2018,” he added.
A research paper by Prosper Yao Tsikata and A. Kobla Dotse of the Valdosta State University in the United States looked at this rampant problem of the rush for doctorate degrees in Ghanaian society to fish out prominent Ghanaians who have been awarded such degrees by bogus universities in the US and worldwide.
They found a disturbing number of prominent Ghanaians receiving such degrees, degrees that can only be described as fake as neither the National Accreditation Board in Ghana or the respective accreditation board in the country of origin have sanctioned them to give out such honours.
Those implicated included Gifty Anti, the IGP John Kudalor, Hassan Ayariga, Abeiku Santana and Sherry Ayittey.
Here’s the relevant portion about the SMC from the research paper which Gatsi is disputing.
Swiss Management Centre
…Multiplicity of issues emerged regarding its accreditation status. These are:
I. the SMC is not accredited by the Swiss Accreditation Council (SAC), a Swiss federal institution that monitors the quality of higher education in that country (SAC, 2015).
II. A letter was sent to the NAB and its Executive Secretary by Dr. A. Kobla Dotse, based on this observation. In his response, the Executive Secretary of the NAB, Mr. Kwame Dattey, indicated that the NAB’s accreditation granted to the SMC is based on SMC’s accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP), an accrediting body under the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) in the United States (see appendix for communication).
Second, the information from the NAB triggered a further search on the link between the SMC, the ACBSP, the CHEA, and the OPE. The following facts were unraveled:
I. The ACBSP is not recognized by the OPE as one of its accreditation agencies (in other words, the ACBSP does not have the seal of authority from the US Department of Education). The ACBSP derives its accreditation powers the CHEA which is a private organization and also not an agency of the OPE.
II. According to the ACBSP itself, it “does not accredit the institution, only the business programs at the institution” (ACBSP, 2016, June 10).
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