Teacher caught with fake degree in Antigua
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| Published on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 |
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ST JOHN'S, Antigua: A secondary school teacher within the public system in Antigua and Barbuda tendered his resignation immediately on Tuesday after he was caught presenting a fake document to education officials.
The teacher, whose name is being withheld at this time, was seeking to be upgraded to a graduate assistant, and his certificates were being reviewed when it was discovered that the Bachelors Degree in Sociology, which he claimed to have obtained from the University of Guyana in 1997 was fake.
The police were called in to the Ministry of Education on Tuesday morning, where the teacher was being questioned by education officials on the authenticity of the degree.
It was in the presence of both law enforcement officers and education officials that the teacher who was first appointed to the system in October 1998, confessed to purchasing the degree in Guyana for one hundred US dollars, the equivalent of twenty thousand Guyana dollars.
Chief Education Officer Jacintha Pringle says she finds it difficult to accept any teacher in the system, who would want to be upgraded through foul means.
She added that it is a serious matter, and should not go unpunished.
“It is unfair to others who have sacrificed and have studied hard at university,” she said. | | | | Reads : 695 |
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