Mtanganyika
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Controversy
As Pacific Western University, i.e., prior to changing its name to California Miramar University, the institution was criticized on multiple occasions as a substandard educational institution or diploma mill. [19]
In May 2004 the US General Accounting Office presented the results of an eight-month examination of diploma mills and other unaccredited schools and federal employees holding their degrees to the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.[20] Pacific Western University in Los Angeles was one of the six schools on which the investigation focused.
Later that year, investigative reporters from television station KVOA of Tucson, Arizona described the Los Angeles campus of Pacific Western University: "We don't find students, classrooms or professors. Only a small office with two receptionists and a man who introduces himself as the dean."[21] KVOA noted that federal investigators had identified PWU as a diploma mill.[21][22] The station reported that Pima Community College in Tucson had reduced the salaries of two faculty members who previously had been paid at the Ph.D level based on their degrees from PWU.[21]
Internationally, Pacific Western University has a similar reputation. It was reported in the Irish Independent on 9 October 2005 that the Chief Science Advisor to the government of Ireland, Barry McSweeney, had been found to have advanced his career using a suspect degree obtained from Pacific Western University.[23][24] The newspaper report stated that McSweeney had obtained his Ph.D. in biotechnology and biochemistry from PWU in 1994 after just 12 months of study. It described PWU as having "no merit or standing in the academic world" and having been "the subject of numerous official investigations, state bans and media exposés" during its 28 years of operation.[23] McSweeney was forced to resign his position as a result.[25] In Australia, the Brisbane Courier Mail reported on 6 January 2004 that a lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland was banned from using the title of "Doctor" after it was discovered that his Ph.D. had been obtained from Pacific Western University.[citation needed]
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Associate Professors
1. Moses M.D. Warioba DPA (IDM), Dip. Publ. Sect. Mgt (Aston), MBIM- (London), M.Sc. Publ. Sec. Mgt (Birmingham), Ph.D. (Public Admin.) PWU, (USA)
2. Leonard .J. Shio B.A (Ed) Hons. (UDSM.), M.A. (Econ. Dev.) (UDSM), Ph.D(Management) PWU, (USA)
3. M.N. Chao B.A (Ed.) Hons. (UDSM), M.A. (Dev. Studies) (UDSM), Ph. D. (PWU), USA Senior Lecturers
4. Raphael J.M. Habi ADPA (IDM), M.Sc.(Pers. Mgt) (Aston) (UK), MIPM (U.K.), Dip. T. & D. (Manchester) (UK), Ph.D(Management) PWU, (USA)
5. Christopher M. Sotta DPA (IDM), PG.D.(Gen.Mgt.)(IDM), MPA (IDM), Ph.D (Public Admin) PWU, U.S.A.
6. Aristarch K. Kiwango B.A. (Soc. Econ Admin) Makerere, M.Sc. (Econ.) Wales, Ph.D. (Econ.) PWU, (USA) PGD. (Project Planning)ISS,The Hague, PGD. (Pop & Dev Plan) ISS, The Hague
7. Colman Riwa B.A. (Education) (UDSM), PGD (Tesol) London, M.A. (Public Policy and Admin.) ISS, The Hague, Ph.D. (Public Administration) PWU, USA. (On leave of absence)
BADO YANAKUJA meeengi. Tunaangalia hawa wanaojiita Dr, Dr au maprofessor. Lakini kuna mwanzo, yaani hata wale wanaotafuta Bachellors. Kuna BSc na BA nyingi feki na ziko maofisini. Pale Kampala kuna Chuo kinajiita Kampala International ... Hapo waganda wanafahamu ni chuo cha wa-Tz na wakenya. Waganda hawasomi kabisa maana wanafahamu cheti cha hapo hakiuziki mtaani kwao. Sisi tumejaza watoto wetu ili wapate degree bila ku-disco eti! Rais wetu kaweka na siasa hivi majuzi akafungua tawi la CCM ndani ya chuo kilico ndani ya Uganda!!!!!
Sasa pale UD pia tuambieni. UDSM pamoja na Mzumbe quality ya hizo MBA executive ikoje??? Nasikia inaitwa yebo-yebo. Ndo mambo ya PWU hayo. Ni hakuna kitu!
UDSM na Muzumbe mumekuwa ni wazalishaji wa masters kibiashara.
Kila mtu anaqualify kusoma hizo executives zenu. Stupid![/
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Kuna madogo wamemaliza chuo cha Uhasibu Arusha na wengine wamemaliza Tanzania Institute of Accountancy (zamani DSA) wengine CBE, hawa wote wamemaliza mwaka jana Advanced diploma na mwaka huo huo 2008 wamejiunga na Mzumbe university wanachukua Masters degree.
UPO hapo?
Mzumbe geukeni! Masters sio biashara!
Nadhani mnaangalia Mzumbe tuu. Vyuo vyote Tanzania ni scum yaani i don't care utasema Mzumbe, UDSM, St. Agustino sijui Nyegezi. Sababu hakuna wakufunzi wa kutosha nchini Tanzania hivyo madhara yake ni kuwa na walimu wasio na vigezo.
IFM kuna baadhi ya washikaji zangu wanafundisha wakati wenyewe wana degree moja. Sasa najiuliza how is it posible mtu mwenye BS au BA akafundisha? I understand kama akiwa TA wakati anasoma PhD then anaweza kufundisha, lakini sio pimbi tuu eti kisa ana GPA 4.8 then anaqualify kufundisha. GPA is not a benchmark ya kuwa mkufunzi.
Kisha wao ndio wakwanza kukwambia aaah umesoma degree zako zote USA ooohh hizo ni feki degree.
That is a mess
Yaani kuna watu nilisoma nao wakapata GPA ya lower 2nd they were so weak kitaaluma...you can imagine!
Nimekutana nao juzi wana masters za MU tayari...sasa sijui waliandikiwa au walitoa pesa..au ilikuwaje!
Nachokiona sii kazi kupata Masters ya MU!
Guys we thrieve for quality and we should not compromise it!
Kwa hiyo mtu akiwa na lower 2nd or even Pass asiruhusiwe kufanya Masters?
Hofstede: ....lakini sio pimbi tuu eti kisa ana GPA 4.8 then anaqualify kufundisha. GPA is not a benchmark ya kuwa mkufunzi.
Kwa hiyo mtu akiwa na lower 2nd or even Pass asiruhusiwe kufanya Masters?
Hofstede: ....lakini sio pimbi tuu eti kisa ana GPA 4.8 then anaqualify kufundisha. GPA is not a benchmark ya kuwa mkufunzi.
Niambie aliyewahi kupata GPA hii mimi binafsi nitamzawadia, actually kwa vyuo serious hasa vilivyo katika mfumo wa common wealth naona kama haiwezekani kupata hii.
Hivi kwani ukiwa na Advanced diploma hairuhusiwi kuchukua Masters degree?
Mbona Sumaye kachukua Masters na advanced diploma yake?
Au mi ndo sielewi wandugu?
Mzee mtu kilaza?????
Kwani ni sheria au lazima kuwa na masters hata kama ni weak candidates?
Kwani hawa watu hawawezi kufanya kazi zingine?
Unakuta mtu is so weak eti naye anataka kuwa MD? Au engineer?
Sii kuna vyuo vya VETA au Diploma?
Mkuu ulitaaka wasome nini?......nyie ndio wale mnaoongeza miaka ya kusoma na kufanya vijana wapate hela wakiwa wazee.....Kuna madogo wamemaliza chuo cha Uhasibu Arusha na wengine wamemaliza Tanzania Institute of Accountancy (zamani DSA) wengine CBE, hawa wote wamemaliza mwaka jana Advanced diploma na mwaka huo huo 2008 wamejiunga na Mzumbe university wanachukua Masters degree.
UPO hapo?
Mzumbe geukeni! Masters sio biashara!
Waliokutwa na vyeti haramu Mzumbe wavisafisha
Theopista Nsanzugwanko
Daily News; Monday,February 16, 2009 @20:11
Uongozi wa Chuo Kikuu cha Mzumbe umesema wahadhiri waliobainika kuwa na vyeti kutoka vyuo visivyotambulika, wanasoma sasa kwenye Chuo Kikuu cha Malawi kwa ajili ya kusafisha vyeti hivyo.
Of all universities, including vyuo vyetu hapa Tanzania, kwa nini Chuo Kikuu Cha Malawi? Mbona naanza kuhisi kama kamchezo flani hivi kanaendelea
Alisema kuhusu uongozi wa chuo kuwafutia au kuwanyang'anya sifa wahadhiri hao, Baraza la Chuo liliagiza wahadhiri kutotumika katika shughuli za chuo mpaka watakapohitimu katika sifa za Udaktari na Falsafa katika udahili huo mpya. Hivi karibuni baadhi ya vyombo vya habari viliripoti kuwa wahadhiri wanane wa Chuo Kikuu cha Mzumbe akiwamo Makamu Mkuu wa Chuo waligundulika kuwa na shahada za uzamivu za kughushi.[/siz
Binafsi sijaielewa hiyo sentensi, huo ni udanganyifu waliufanya na wanapaswa kuchukuliwa hatua za kisheria. 'KUTOTUMIKA kwenye shughuliza chuo ina maana wanaendelea kupata mshahara na marupurupu mengine huku wakiwa hata hawafundishi?
Bado naamini kuwa watz wengi hatuhitaji elimu ya Juu!
VETA kila wilaya..na utundu wa wanafunzi wetu ktk vyuo vyao vya Ufundi.....yaaani we invest massively ktk middle level vyuo vya ufundi!
Hata China investment kubwa sana ni ktk Ufundi!
Sasa angalia Dodoma...60% wanafunzi ni Social Sciences...je hii itatufikisha wapi?
je mapinduzi ya Kilimo na Sayansi ni ktk NgwiNI???
Something is wrong!