HOW DALC got ignorant Kenyans to sign with Irish University.

After completing your Graduate or PostGraduate Diploma, DALC offers you a chance to "upgrade" your diploma to a full Bachelors or Masters Degree. According to DALC's website,the upgrade is guaranteed with various UK universities. The funny thing is that to get further information, DALC requires you to enquire from a yahoo address (creativeafrica2004@yahoo.com). This is rather strange as no legit education institution or agent of a genuine university would operate from yahoo but hey! DALC is creative.

I tried to send an email to the yahoo address displayed on DALC's website but it bounced back and then...I found a bitter graduate of Irish university who has the emails from 2006 when he signed up.So here goes the email from Irish University.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: creative africa2004
To: r****a@hotmail.com
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:55:55 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Fwd: IRISH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY UPGRADE TO BACHELORS OR MASTERS DEGREE
Dear Sir/Madam

Irish International University (IIU) was incorporated in Dublin Ireland but has strong connections with Malaysia since current top organs are Malaysians.

The University is a corporate Open University and has Associate Colleges in UK, Switzerland, Germany, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Nigeria, East Africa and Sri Lanka.

We have established that you are doing a course with Cambridge Association of Managers (CAM) or Oxford Association of Management (OXIM).

IIU recognizes diplomas from the above two professional bodies and we would like to know if you wish to consider IIU as an upgrading university for your diploma.

We also recognize other qualifications like ABE, ICM, LCCI, ACCA, ABAC, IMIS, etc.

If you would like to know more about upgrades of these other qualifications, or any other qualifications that you might possess, please send to us an email to: creativeafrica2004@yahoo.com

To know more about IIU, please visit our website www.iiuedu.ie .

To get testimonials visit IIU website www.iiuedu.ie and click on "comments".

We are currently establishing an office in Dar es Salaam within the next 2 months. During this time, all correspondences may be through your centre and payments made directly in favour of Irish International University but copies of details emailed to us for follow-up.

It is important that payment copies are emailed to us so that we can make follow-ups for the same on your behalf. Projects will also be sent directly to IIU by DHL during this time or through your current centre.

Yours sincerely,


Rahid Juma
East African Liase Officer

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This email comes with an attachment explaining that Irish International University recognises CAM/OXIM qualifications. See Below.

IRISH INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

SUBJECT: RECOGNITION OF QUALIFCATIONS FROM CAMBRIDGE ASSOCIATION OF MANAGERS (CAM) AND OXFORD ASSOCIATION OF MANAGEMENT (OXIM) ,UK

This is to advise all concerned that this university recognizes the qualifications from the above institutions as below:

Qualification at CAM or OXIM	Additional requirements	Equivalence at IIU	Award	Remarks	Fees
Ordinary Diploma	NIL	1st Year Bachelors ( 30% Bachelors Degree)	1st Year transcripts if exam taken at IIU OR credit points awarded for 1st year	Usually awarded by CAM or OXIM	-
Advanced Diploma	NIL	2ND Year Bachelors (50% Bachelors Degree)	2nd Year transcripts if exam taken at IIU OR credit points awarded for 2nd year	Usually awarded by CAM or OXIM	-
Graduate Diploma	Bachelors Project	3RD Year Bachelors (90% Bachelors Degree)	Bachelors Degree	Attach Graduate Diploma Transcripts or Final Graduate Diploma Certificate PLUS Bachelors Project	GB Pounds 585 ( Research Project Assessment)
Postgraduate Diploma	Masters Project (Thesis)	90% Masters Degree	Masters Degree	Attach Post Graduate Diploma Transcripts or Final Post Graduate Diploma Certificate PLUS Masters Project (i.e Thesis)	GB Pounds 995 ( Research Project Assessment)

For a student to upgrade, through credit transfers, CAM and OXIM qualifications with IIU, they must register will IIU directly and therefore must complete the normal admission forms for this university and submit to us directly or through an agreed centre.

IIU is a corporate private university fully accredited in Malaysia, though has origins in Ireland. It is also accredited to offer qualifications at bachelors, masters and doctoral levels in UK ( by Qualifications Assurance Commission, QAC, UK ) and National Academy of Higher Education (NAHE) of US. IIU is also listed in Official British Qualifications Book of 32^nd to 36^th Editions.

For more information, please visit IIU website at www.iiuedu.ie . You can click on “comments” on the homepage to see testimonials of prominent people who have qualified from IIU. You might also be interested in our past graduations in Malaysia and UK, whose photos are also included in the website.

International Office: Irish Internationale Universite (European Union), Limited

Suite 213, Block F, Phileo Damnsara 1 , Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

E-mail: international@iiuedu.ie , Telephone: +603 7960 2611, Facsimile: +603 7960 2613

Important information for those looking forward to PhD/DBA/Mphil

1. Write an overview research proposal and attach your masters degree qualifications or other evidence of overwhelming research that would equate to masters Degree
2. Send to your immediate centre which finally sends to IIU
3. Once an external and internal supervisor(s) is/are established start your research which we expect you to complete in 16 months and achieve the award by Distance Learning. All details will be sent on request.
4. Processing should take a maximum of 2 weeks
5. Fees Guide: About GB Pounds 3,000 for whole period

Take note that all this is from the creativeafrica2004@yahoo.com address as given on DALC's website. Surprisingly the link showing the yahoo address can still be seen on DALC's website but am sure not for long.

The Irish University representative sent another email when questioned on other Universities one could upgrade with. The response is below and take note of the Universities in that list and then try to find them on the internet by yourself.

To:
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: creative africa2004 <creativeafrica2004@yahoo.com> Date: Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 7:22 AM Subject: Re: UPGRADING UNIVERSITY LIST To: <********@yahoo.com> Dear Sir/ Madam, Many thanks for your email and sorry for the delay in my return email. I was still collecting and reviewing information related to universities that can best match your interest. Attached please find information relating to your upgrade request. I will be sending additional universities and institutes soon. As you know, I was only appointed for this task in May 2006 and as such have been working round the clock to set up a separate office, website and email addresses that are not yahoo or hotmail! Please bear with me as I am determined to make all the information you need available from our website by 1st September 2006. Yours faithfully, Rashid Juma Omar Regional Liase Officer Creative Africa <******@yahoo.com> wrote: HI please send the list of universities that i can use to send my degree project to. thank you. Yahoo! Music Unlimited - Access over 1 million songs. Try it free. Want to be your own boss? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business.

Then there is an attachment of alternative Universities that one can upgrade with. Read further.

ADDITIONAL LIST OF UNIVERSTIES AND INSTITUTES FOR UPGRADE

Dear Student,

Please find below an additional list of universities for upgrade of your diplomas:

Course level	University	Additional requirements	Approximate Additional duration	Approximate Fees per annum
Graduate Diploma or equivalent	Greenwich (UK)	Additional subjects to be determined after results and other evidences submitted	1 Year	GB Pounds 8,000
	Hertfordshire (UK)	Additional subjects to be determined after results and other evidences submitted	1 year	GB Pounds 8,000
	Liverpool (UK)	Additional subjects to be determined after results and other evidences submitted	1 year	GB Pounds 8,000
Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent	Greenwich (UK)	Additional subjects to be determined after results and other evidences submitted	6 months to 1 year depending on your other submitted evidences	GB Pounds 14,000
	Hertfordshire (UK)	Additional subjects to be determined after results and other evidences submitted	6 months to 1 year depending on your other submitted evidences	GB Pounds 13,000
	Liverpool (UK)	Additional subjects to be determined after results and other evidences submitted	6 months to 1 year depending on your other submitted evidences	GB Pounds 16,000

Please note: The fees above do not include accommodation in UK. The universities would expect you to travel to UK for the courses but Liverpool has online / Distance Learning arrangement. Fees quoted for Liverpool are based on this online/distance learning arrangement.

UK INSTITUTES OFFERING BACHELORS AND MASTERS DEGREES

Course level	Institute	Additional requirements	Approximate Additional duration	Approximate Fees per annum
Graduate Diploma or equivalent	European Business School - Cambridge	1 week Presentation Seminar at Cambridge for EURO BBA award. Bachelors Project	1 week presentation at Cambridge As soon as you can complete the bachelors project and submit	GB Pounds 2,400
Post Graduate Diploma or equivalent	European Business School - Cambridge	1 week Presentation Seminar at Cambridge for EURO MBA award. Masters Thesis	1 week presentation at Cambridge As soon as you can complete the bachelors project and submit	GB Pounds 3,200

Please note: Fees do not include travel and accommodation expenses to European Business School - Cambridge (UK) for the 1 week presentation seminar.

So, make a little effort to find the truth by going to google and looking up the universities mentioned here. You can also try and see how many of them are listed in Wikipedia's list of un accredited universities mentioned in my previous post.