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Forty-three medical-school entrants struck off for fake high-school certificates, two years after they passed the entrance exam: Cambodia's warning, and why a bought diploma is discovered later, not n
In April 2022 Cambodia's Ministry of Education publicly condemned the use of forged high-school certificates to sit entrance examinations for medical courses, after 43 applicants were found to have used them.
According to the Phnom Penh Post and Khmer Times, the national examination committee for the health sector, headed by Hing Thoraxy of the Council of Ministers, issued a letter on 30 March 2022 removing the 43 from the candidate lists for foundation-year and first-year programmes in nursing and laboratory technology. The students had used fake certificates to take entrance exams at several universities and institutes in 2019 and 2020, and had passed. Twenty-eight were in nursing, seven in laboratory technology, four in dental nursing and three in midwifery. Khmer Times has since reported the committee exposing impostors who sat the health-sector exam for others, and the ministry warning that anyone found using a forged Bac II certificate would face the law.
The timing is the lesson. The forged certificates got the applicants in; they did not keep them in. Two years into their courses, a verification pass against the examination records removed every one of them, with the tuition paid and the time gone. Verification of school-leaving documents is routine, slow and, in most countries, now electronic, and it happens at several points: at admission, at registration with the professional council, and often again when a graduate applies to work or train abroad.
For students considering medicine overseas, the same mechanism applies to every document an agent offers to "arrange": a 12th-standard certificate, an eligibility certificate, a language score, an equivalency. Each is checked against the issuer at some later point, and a forgery at the bottom of the file invalidates everything built on top of it, including a genuine medical degree.
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