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The dentistry faculty at Morphou\u2019s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU)\u00a0had its licence to teach temporarily revoked\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\nThe dentistry faculty at Morphou\u2019s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU)\u00a0had its licence to teach temporarily revoked\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The north\u2019s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak) announced the suspension until January 31 next year as investigations continue into a growing scandal regarding the alleged issue of fake diplomas.The latest arrest made regarding the scandal was on Tuesday evening, with\u00a0a former private secretary to a former \u2018prime minister\u2019, who currently works as a civil servant at the \u2018labour ministry\u2019, being taken into custody.He appeared in court on Wednesday, where police officer Ali Erdelhun said that the man enrolled at the university on September 13, 2022.He said that on the same day, a total of 61 course grades \u201cwere entered [into the university\u2019s database] in the space of a few minutes,\u201d\u00a0allowing the man to receive a four-year degree certificate on the same day he enrolled.The \u201cdegree\u201d, he said, allowed the suspect to receive a pay rise in his public sector jobs.Judge Zehra Yalkut Bilgec ordered that he be remanded in custody for two days while the police calculate how much money he obtained under false pretences.Follow the
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The dentistry faculty at Morphou\u2019s Cyprus Health and Social Sciences University (KSTU) had its license to teach temporarily revoked by the north\u2019s higher education accreditation authority (Yodak) until January 31 of the next year due to ongoing investigations into a scandal involving the alleged issuance of fake diplomas. A former private secretary to a former ‘prime minister’, now a civil servant at the ‘labour ministry’, was arrested in connection with the scandal. He enrolled at the university on September 13, 2022, and received a four-year degree certificate on the same day after 61 course grades were entered into the university\u2019s database within minutes. This degree enabled him to receive a pay rise in his public sector job. He was remanded in custody for two days for the police to calculate the financial gains from his alleged deception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[232,932,3,999,405,250,210,28,839,15,631,184,583,759,335,1000,1001],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-arrest","tag-court","tag-cyprus","tag-cyprus-universities","tag-education","tag-google","tag-health","tag-jobs","tag-labour","tag-labour-ministry","tag-north-cyprus","tag-police","tag-public-sector","tag-scandal","tag-space","tag-turkish-cypriot-universities","tag-universities"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n