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The BBC has exposed the Irish International University as a scam, awarding ‘sub-standard and worthless degrees’. In an investigation televised on its London news programme, it was revealed that this bogus institution has been allowed to thrive ‘virtually unchecked by the government’. The scam targets overseas students who visit their website, advertising the institution as a viable option for those who can not afford the standard British university tuition fees. The IIU give the impression that they award internationally recognised qualifications without actually claiming official accreditation, fooling unsuspecting foreign students.
The IIU web-site welcomes visitors with flashing images of supposed academics in cloaks and mortarboards and a greeting full of meaningless terminology, name-dropping its manufactured independent ‘Quality Assurance Committee’. The site has managed to dupe innocent foreign students researching institutions based in the UK. International students have arrived in London to discover to their dismay that their ‘campus’ is an office block above a Chinese restaurant with no library or many other students.
The Home Office is to introduce new measures to prevent overseas students obtaining visas unless the private colleges they have applied for meet the approval or have been accredited by a body such as the British Accreditation Council.
Emily Kennedy