{"id":6905,"date":"2021-06-01T20:45:21","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-diploma-mills","title":{"rendered":"What You Need to Know About Diploma Mills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5528\" src=\"https:\/\/integrity-asia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/caleb-woods-ricmwdlk1wo-unsplash-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Diploma mills\" width=\"394\" height=\"222\" \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A company in Indonesia was about to hire a candidate, but after having a background check on his academic record, it was found that his degree was issued by a university that was not registered under Indonesia Higher Education Government Bodies. It turned out that the university itself had dualism in their organization and only one was registered, hence the other was considered as a diploma mill. This complicates the candidate\u2019s educational qualifications as his diploma was invalid.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Indonesian government through the Ministry of Education and Culture has long been in effort to eradicate diploma mills. Diploma mills <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">are basically<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> universities or equal educational institutions that have no authority to issue diplomas for they are neither accredited or registered under any governing authority. In short, these universities are bogus. Thus, the diplomas that they issue are invalid.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Indonesia, as many as 243 private higher education institutions were closed down in 2019 for committing a fairly serious violation and issuing invalid diplomas without academic activities, as well as trading these fraudulent documents, according to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Suara.com<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (19\/02\/2019).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most diploma mills display at least\u00a0 a few or all of the following hallmarks:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They are unaccredited \/ not registered under authorities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They do not conduct academic activities.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They claim that academic activities are done through online or e-learning classes or what is commonly said as distance learning.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">They guarantee that students will receive diplomas in far less time than common universities.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Take Jakarta Institute of Management Studies (JIMS) as an example. They were once called out by the Indonesian mainstream media as one of the universities that issued invalid diplomas. It was proven that they conducted academic activities, but the institution was not accredited. Thus, the diplomas that they issued were declared invalid by the Ministry of Education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Diploma mills pose threats to students, employers, and the reputation of legitimate universities, especially those that hold e-learning courses. While the authority is clamping down on these bogus universities, legitimate universities should defend their own reputation and prove their integrity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One of the efforts that can be taken is to verify the educational documents of their alumni. In practice, however, document verifications by telephone, email, and fax are often inefficient.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A one-stop verification platform is the answer to this problem. Through a one-stop verification platform, such as <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.education-verification.com\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">www.education-verification.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the document verification process will be more efficient in terms of time and resources. In the Education Verification platform,\u00a0 the name of the verifier is recorded in the system, which maintains accountability in the verification process. Moreover, the verification is done in a two-step process: verification by the academic staff and confirmation by a supervisor, which promotes a check-and-balance process. It is also guaranteed that all listed universities are only those that are accredited. All results can be accounted for and are guaranteed to be accurate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Azhara, Putri<\/span><br \/>\nPhoto from Unsplash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A company in Indonesia was about to hire a candidate, but after having a background check on his academic record, it was found that his degree was issued by a university that was not registered under Indonesia Higher Education Government Bodies. It turned out that the university itself had dualism in their organization and only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"acf":[],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2021\/06\/caleb-woods-ricmwdlk1wo-unsplash-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-corporate.integrity-asia.com\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}