The incident of fake academic qualifications at the HKU Business School, which had caused a lot of uproar before, has escalated again, and two mainland women have been arrested. One of them has been brought before the court for questioning and is provisionally charged with "using false instruments".
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In fact, the matter of the falsification of the University of Hong Kong has been on the hot search before. I just didn't expect it to escalate to a situation where someone was arrested.
According to previous reports, because the University of Hong Kong found that there was a phenomenon of falsification of admission application materials, so.
The reason for the comprehensive investigation was that a master's student of HKU Business School was suspected of plagiarizing someone else's work and was discovered by the school.
The university decided to conduct a second review of the student's application materials and asked the student to contact the undergraduate institution, which will directly send the transcript to prove the authenticity of the materials. However, the student has been unable to provide relevant supporting documents for a long time.
As a result, HKU conducted further investigation and found that the student had indeed falsified his academic qualifications.
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One stone strikes a thousand waves.
After the investigation, the college found that the fake academic qualifications found in the investigation were mainly from overseas universities, while the academic qualifications of mainland and Hong Kong students were all true, and so far more than 30 students have been found to use fake academic qualifications to apply for admission.
Cai Hongbin, Dean of SME School, said:
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It is unbelievable that the University of Hong Kong, as a top university, should have such a number of academic frauds known to them.
The "Hong Kong University Calendar Thunder" incident has once again exposed the dark side of "guaranteed admission" for studying abroad.
False guaranteed admission
What is guaranteed admission? Literally, the agent will give you a "promise" that as long as you pay the money, you will definitely be allowed to go to the school of your choice.
With the rise of the study abroad craze, guaranteed admission can also be seen everywhere on major search software and social media.
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What is the "magic" of the so-called guaranteed admission agency to send students to prestigious schools?
In fact, let these intermediaries talk about it, and "guaranteed admission" is, to put it bluntly, academic fraud. By forging a series of documents to meet the requirements of the target institution, this is the "core essence" of guaranteed admission.
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In order to completely unveil the fig leaf of "guaranteed admission", HKU also showed the means of these intermediaries in 1510:
⭕ Agreements: Taking undergraduate degrees from United States universities as an example, students may feel that their undergraduate background cannot apply to HKU, so they sign an application counseling agreement with an agent.
⭕ Forgery: Students think that the agent is just packaging their academic experience and writing application essays for them, but the agent has the audacity to directly fake the excellent transcripts and graduation certificates of first-class universities.
⭕ Conditional Admission: When HKU feels that the materials are matched, it issues a conditional admission and requires the student to provide the materials sent by the undergraduate university.
⭕ Interception: The black-box operation began, and the conditional acceptance letter was not sent to the student, but was arranged to be sent to the address provided by the intermediary.
⭕ Tampering: The agent secretly tampered with the admission notice and asked the student to provide the information of the undergraduate school by himself, which made the student think that the student was admitted with the help of the agent.
⭕ At the same time, in the case of deceiving the students, the intermediary fished in troubled waters and sent a set of fake materials to HKU. Degree certificates, transcripts, envelopes, and seals are all indistinguishable from the real thing.
In addition, these guaranteed admissions are often linked to sky-high fees.
According to a Hong Kong media investigation, the fee for a "guaranteed admission" contract is at least 500,000 yuan, but the operation of a black intermediary only needs a few employees, and the huge profits are self-evident.
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Of course, once the "guaranteed admission" is discovered, the consequences will be very serious.
The University of Hong Kong said about this incident: if it is found that the academic documents are false and forged, it will be.
If a student has already enrolled in a programme, the student concerned will also be subject to disciplinary action by the University.
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According to the laws of Hong Kong:
"If a student knowingly admits admission to a university in Hong Kong by means of a false academic qualification, the person concerned may be charged with fraud and use of false instruments, with a maximum penalty of 14 years' imprisonment!"
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In fact, not only Hong Kong, but almost all the world's elite universities are cracking down on guaranteed admissions and all kinds of academic fraud.
Previously, some students paid 380,000 yuan and signed a contract with an intermediary to guarantee admission to G5, and the contract also stated that they would not apply with fake materials.
As a result, when the agent submits it, the student's transcripts, overseas recommendation letters and other materials are fake.
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So why is there still a "guaranteed admission agent" in the student union today?
In fact, there are two reasons: the psychology of taking shortcuts and the disguise of black intermediaries.
The Trap of Guaranteed Admission
The potential customers of the guaranteed admission agency are always those students who have a fluke mentality and are delusional that they will be able to get into a prestigious school without hard work.
If you don't want to be a student of these guaranteed admission agents, then have a firm down-to-earth belief.
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Step 2,.
Generally speaking, black intermediaries have the following characteristics:
⭕ Under the banner of consultation and Q&A, it actually creates anxiety and sells services, forcing you to sign a contract in a panic
⭕ Send you to the "pheasant" school for the commission, which is called "0 intermediary fee", but you can't return to China to certify it
⭕ Academic fraud, exaggerating your grades, falsifying your materials, once found by the school, you will be banned for life
⭕ Sign up for a guaranteed class, and finally choose the worst school for you
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⭕ The turnover of consultants is high, and after frequent teacher changes, the second teacher who does not get a commission from the client may be rotten
⭕ The level of the clerk teacher is low, mass production, and if you want high-quality documents, the clerk teacher charges privately
⭕ Don't allow or excuse yourself from interfering with the content of your paperwork
⭕ Opaque prices, vague contracts (unclear and unclear services provided, refunds)
In addition to mastering the methods of identifying shady agents, we also need to do the following things in the selection of agents and the whole application:
I hope that what Walnut said above can help everyone, and I sincerely hope that no more students will fall into the trap of guaranteed admission.
(Source: WalnutEnglish WeChat public account.) Thanks to the original author, just for knowledge sharing. ）