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Kampala International University students to correct PhDs

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Tuesday, 26 March 2013 23:56
Written by Alon Mwesigwa
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The National Council for Higher of Education will only recognise PhDs that Kampala International University recently awarded to its students, if the anomalies that were found in the students’ dissertations are corrected.
NCHE Chairman Pen-Mogi Nyeko told journalists yesterday that investigations into KIU’s PhDs revealed anomalies that have to be corrected.
“NCHE engaged expert reviewers who read the dissertations and made reports per candidate…,” said Prof Nyeko, who is also Vice Chancellor of Gulu University.
Last November, KIU announced it would award 42 PhDs, leading to questions about its capacity to produce the PhDs, before NCHE suspended the awards. Prof Nyeko noted that although KIU policy documents for the PhD programme were well written and contained good procedures that could have produced quality PhD graduates, this was not reflected in some of the students’ work.
“There were flaws in the admission processes, low quality examination processes, recruitment of some non-qualified supervisors and examiners, and non-adherence to the four-year approved duration for completion of PhD programme,” Nyeko said in a statement to the press.
Sixty six candidates will be affected by the decision – 24 students who graduated in 2011 and 42 in 2012. Eight of the students, however, are required to make minor corrections on their dissertations, 36 require major revisions of about 6-12 months.
“The remaining 22 dissertations were rejected generally for having serious conceptual, philosophical, theoretical, methodological, and new knowledge deficiencies as well as obvious instances of plagiarism that rendered them irredeemable,” said Nyeko.
These students were advised to embark on the research process afresh.
NCHE will identify a team of independent assessors in consultation with KIU to ensure that her recommendations are adhered to. KIU will bear the cost of the exercise, Nyeko said.

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