OVER 400 foreigners were caught last year for lying to the Manpower Ministry in their work pass applications, a fourfold increase from the 97 cases in 2005.
The private school teacher David Nelson Samuel should learn how to lie seamlessly.
According to the ST report, he bought a degree from a St Regis University and found out later that it was unrecognised. Can anyone be so silly? If a certain degree can be bought without the need to complete any coursework or research work, it doesn't take a genius to conclude that this degree is most likely unrecognised.
No leh... I got this email that says essentially "you already very smart and experienced so why mug useless text books? Just pay us and get a degree that you deserve."
On the other hand, it is complacency of MOM and other govt agencies not to conduct any test on the FT. We have enough resources to test any applicant up to Ph.D level. Some years ago, a fake doctor was posted to Toa Payoh Hospital for his Housemanship. It took a sharp eyed senior doctor to spot that he was a fake. The MOH later made a search but this doctor had already attended to many patients.
Complacency again and it is not new to me. The govt depts had been complacent since day one.
It depends a lot on the interviewers. If the interviewers think a candidate is suitable (whether or not the person is presenting a forged certificate; of course the person lacks honesty in that area), then the paper requirement is not important. If an organization insists only people from graduate schools are suitable for its jobs, and yet it does not have the ability to show why it is so, something is not right in the system.
August 08, 2008 Friday, 02:29 AM
