Comments on: Procrastination is good for mental health

By: Dr Geoffrey Woollen

Dr Geoffrey Woollen — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:23:53 +0000

Saw a report on the IIU on BBC television news today (7 1 2008).

Mea non culpa.

My name, apparently now tarnished by association, should not encourage people to think that I am guilty of any disreputable practices. I taught French at Glasgow University for 35 years. A fairly kosher job, though dumbing down was beginning to get to me towards the end. I coped by having my final contract relate to language teaching only. Where things are either right or wrong, not in an indeterminate «What do others think?» / life experience haze in the middle.

By: Hafiz Ismail

Hafiz Ismail — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:33:16 +0000

Idlan, these are closely related:

IPFM (www.ipfm.com)
OHRM (Mr Masjuki is in IPFM and EBS Cambridge)
IIUEDU
OXIM
EBSCAMBRIDGE (domain registered in Ascension Islands, therefore “.ac”)
FAIRFAXU.EDU (Max Blythe

By: Hodmadod (London UK)

Hodmadod (London UK) — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 17:34:53 +0000

http://tinyurl.com/w8wgc

This is a well-researched piece from Asia Sentinel, from a fortnight ago:

“The time-honored practice of awarding university degrees for money is alive and well in Cambodia. After being turfed out of Malaysia for being neither Irish nor a university, the Internet-based Irish International University of Europa is showering Cambodian political leaders with degrees and establishing an “Asian campus” in Phnom Penh…”

By the way I was wrong in some of what I said about Jeff Wooller in comment 12 above. More information has been supplied to me by the Institute of Chartered Accountants, as follows:

“Mr Wooller accepted a Consent Order on a complaint that in a Magistrates Court he pleaded guilty to two offences under Section 214(1) of the Education Reform Act 1988 for which he was reprimanded, fined £1,000 and ordered to pay costs of £250.”

“There is not a report from the Disciplinary Committee because, as the term implies, he accepted a Consent Order, i.e. he pleaded guilty by post, and an order was made with his agreement by the Investigation Committee.”

By: nono

nono — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:32:15 +0000

congrats to you for being able to your phd at a young age…. so are you going to work in the UK after you graduates? I did my ACCA in London long time ago, so I guess we got similar background, ie. accountancy ……

By: Idlan

Idlan — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:11:41 +0000

I’m not based in London no, but I am based in England. My thesis consists of papers that study the cross sectional variations in executive remuneration target difficulty and disclosure levels in remuneration reports. InsyaAllah, I hope to submit within the next few months.

By: nono

nono — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:23:39 +0000

hi Idlan, from your website, I’m assuming that you are living and studying in London, right? And you are doing your PhD in Accountancy, me too….
I’m looking forward to get a job in London too, but it’s still a dream for me. What’s your thesis about and how far have you reached on your work?

By: nono

nono — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:26:35 +0000

I just opened the OUM website and discovered that they never mentioned that their Post-graduates programmes are being recognized by the LAN or JPA, other than their diplomas and Bachelor degrees. Thus, they are now at the same par as IIU and other online universities.

By: nono

nono — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 15:19:20 +0000

hi again,

yeah, the link you gave me is pretty amazing, maybe that just to show that the IIU Maybe going towards for a better accreditation, i suppose?

anyway, back to my dad, he’s the first malaysian to have achieved that (at that time laa, i have no idea if someone else have broken his record), the others take longer time, and that was yearsssss ago, more than two decades! I have no idea how the systems work now

By: Idlan

Idlan — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:08:27 +0000

You’re quite right there with the LAN issue – imagine the Irish International University being listed as an acceptable institution by OUM (refer here http://educationmalaysia.blogspot.com/2006/08/bogus-universities-iv.html) but can’t accredit legitimate distance learning courses!

Good job for your dad in getting his PhD in less than two years, a very admirable feat; mine never got his – but I suspect you knew what I was getting at with the 1 year program example – or are all the PhD programs at Al Azhar structured to be under two years?

By: nono

nono — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:10:59 +0000

the trouble with our LAN system nowadays, they just don’t accept any distance learning PhDs and some MBAs, hence for such universities that offer all that, they will never get accredited forever….even though some of the online thesis maybe much better than any of the local U’s work. Thus, I still think it’s really up to the individuals’ goals in the first place; some ppl rather not work in the govt sector, hence all this accreditation matter is not a big issue

Regarding the life experience degrees and the 2weeks MBA courses, that’s definitely degree mills! Although from my point of view, a one year PhD does not mean it’s hopeless; my dad did his PhD in less than 2years from the Al-Azhar University (which is definitely accredited!)…