NMMU prof Notshulwana suspended pending CV verification

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NELSON Mandela Metropolitan University’s former dean of arts, Professor Velile Notshulwana, 54, has been suspended. He was placed on precautionary suspension with pay on Friday, pending the outcome of the university’s investigation into his qualifications, which started four months ago.

His suspension came just a day after The Herald’s exposé about alleged false claims on his CV and revelations that his qualifications and work experience were being investigated by the institution.

Notshulwana, who is now head of the university’s family studies unit, has to prove the authenticity of his doctoral degree from Southern California University; that he worked on journals he claimed to have co- authored, and whether he had supervised PhD students as stated in his CV seen by The Herald.

Activities at the three-month-old family studies unit – which he championed and then was given the job as head of the unit despite red flags on his CV – have been put on hold.

NMMU deputy vice-chancellor (academic) Professor Piet Naude, who has been speaking on the university’s behalf in the matter, yesterday confirmed Notshulwana’s suspension.

Naude said the university would be able to confirm the status of Notshulwana’s PhD “quite soon”, after he gave his consent last week for verification to be done.

“The process of internal inquiry continues until all matters pertaining to authorship of publications and supervision of students have been verified,” he said.

Notshulwana could not be reached for comment yesterday.
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– Zandile Mbabela and Michael Kimberley
http://www.heraldlive.co.za/nmmu-prof-notshulwana-suspended-pending-cv-verification/
 
I think CV verification services could be a growth industry in this country.
 
This is ridiculous. How do you hire people before verfying their cvs?
 
Cray said:
Cadre deployment most likely..
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Maybe initially, yes, as in getting a foot in the door... but from then it just gets accepted that he is qualified.

So when he applied for the second job, it's a case of: "Well if Wits (for example) gave him a job then his prerequisite minimum qualifications must be OK".
 
MickeyD said:
Maybe initially, yes, as in getting a foot in the door... but from then it just gets accepted that he is qualified.

So when he applied for the second job, it's a case of: "Well if Wits (for example) gave him a job then his prerequisite minimum qualifications must be OK".
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I've never understood that logic in the public sector...

Every job I've ever had has required me to verify my qualifications, and from what I can tell its a 30min thing to check through a company like Kroll.
 
Didn't the VC of TUT also get fired for being found to have lied about his academic qualifications?
 
How the hell do people in these positions get to manage to away for so long with their lies. Surely people in the academic circles are a tightly enough knitted group to know when someone doesn't have a qualification for real.
 
Picard said:
How the hell do people in these positions get to manage to away for so long with their lies. Surely people in the academic circles are a tightly enough knitted group to know when someone doesn't have a qualification for real.
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People know but only reveal it when it serves their purpose. Same happened with prof Makgoba at Wits, they only went after him when it looked like he might try for VC
 
Picard said:
How the hell do people in these positions get to manage to away for so long with their lies. Surely people in the academic circles are a tightly enough knitted group to know when someone doesn't have a qualification for real.
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All these gents like Jordan and Notshulwana "studied" overseas in some obscure departments,so not quite like seeing your classmate over the weekend is likely
 
ToxicBunny said:
I've never understood that logic in the public sector...

Every job I've ever had has required me to verify my qualifications, and from what I can tell its a 30min thing to check through a company like Kroll.
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Yup same here, recently moved jobs and they still wanted a copy of my Matric certificate even though they had my degree certificate. All verified through a 3rd party, perhaps government departments should start doing that too.
 
Lack of due diligence in the recruitment process. It's a bloody joke.
At my current job I had to produce a certified copy of my highest qualification, which they kept. I had to agree to a criminal record check and a credit check, before they even submitted me to a hectic psychometric test.

Should be the norm IMHO.
 
Sinbad said:
Lack of due diligence in the recruitment process. It's a bloody joke.
At my current job I had to produce a certified copy of my highest qualification, which they kept. I had to agree to a criminal record check and a credit check, before they even submitted me to a hectic psychometric test.

Should be the norm IMHO.
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Yeah, but they were stupid enough to let you near banking systems even AFTER the psychometric test... clearly that test was rubbish :p
 
ToxicBunny said:
Yeah, but they were stupid enough to let you near banking systems even AFTER the psychometric test... clearly that test was rubbish :p
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Why? I haven't implemented my "skim 0.1% off every transaction going through my systems" tax yet? :p

And nor have I murdered any users, though it's been close...
 
Seee, thats why it is a useless test...

Those should have happened within the first 2 weeks of you working there :p
 
Picard said:
How the hell do people in these positions get to manage to away for so long with their lies. Surely people in the academic circles are a tightly enough knitted group to know when someone doesn't have a qualification for real.
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This aint Suits, no Harvard Grad database stored and managed by a single strict lady, this is Africa.. Its a free for all
 
Sinbad said:
Lack of due diligence in the recruitment process. It's a bloody joke.
At my current job I had to produce a certified copy of my highest qualification, which they kept. I had to agree to a criminal record check and a credit check, before they even submitted me to a hectic psychometric test.

Should be the norm IMHO.
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Same here... but the problems always seem to be at the highest level!!! (Board, CEO and his first level of senior executives)
 
Notshulwana fired

A NELSON Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) professor who rigged his CV to secure a R1-million-a-year position has been fired. The CV fraud was exposed by The Herald two months ago.

Yesterday, the university corroborated the newspaper’s findings that Professor Velile Notshulwana lied about: Co-authoring four journal articles; Supervising certain dissertations between 2001 and last year; His association with some American institutions; and Authorship of at least 24 columns published in The Herald.

NMMU terminated his services on Wednesday following a four-month internal investigation.
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http://www.heraldlive.co.za/notshulwana-fired/
 
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