Ministry of Higher Education: No Breach of U.of.K Degree Records
Port Sudan – Sudanhorizon
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research on Wednesday denied any breach of the University of Khartoum’s student degree records.
The ministry’s statement came in response to the resignation of professor Ali Rabah, the University of Khartoum’s Secretary of Academic Affairs, who cited direct external pressure to remain silent on what he called “a third party’s illicit access to the university’s records at the Ministry of Higher Education, the reversal of the digital transformation process, the suspension of the electronic degree project, and the failure to address an attempt to forge academic certificates.” In his resignation letter, Rabah explained that he took this step out of professional and ethical considerations.
The Ministry of Higher Education stated that it protects data using highly reliable security mechanisms and does not deal with any entities outside official channels, thus refuting claims of a breach of data concerning admitted and graduating students through the ministry.
The ministry emphasized that protecting state databases is a sovereign national measure aimed at safeguarding the rights of students and graduates, especially after several state educational institutions were vandalized by the Rapid Support Forces militias.
It indicated that the central admissions system for 172 higher education institutions had been reactivated, along with student and graduate data.
Professor Ali Rabah’s remarks sparked a storm of controversy on social media, reaching the point of questioning the credibility of university degrees.
The Ministry of Higher Education stated that it had provided the resigned Secretary of Academic Affairs at the University of Khartoum with complete copies of student and graduate data to ensure the continuity of the secretariat’s work, despite his refusal to upload the university’s graduates’ detailed certificates to the central database before the outbreak of the war, citing “independence.”
The statement added that the Ministry of Higher Education verifies the validity of academic documents and certificates, and on May 9, 2024, it rejected the resigned secretary’s request to authenticate the certificates of the 2023-2024 graduating class because they did not include academic grades.
It explained that the resigned secretary had disregarded the ministry’s directives prohibiting the authentication of any university degree, effective from the beginning of this year, if it contained scanned seals and signatures. Many universities in Khartoum suffered extensive destruction, including academic records, during the war in the state, and the headquarters of the Ministry of Higher Education, located near the Ministry of Defense, was bombed.
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