Latest reported cases of education fraud in India and abroad: fake degrees, degree mills, certificate rackets, immigration document fraud, regulator action and RTI-based disclosures. Each report links to its sources.
The Economic Offences Wing says a dental assistant at a primary health centre in Arnia secured training and a government job using an allegedly forged matriculation certificate.
25 October 2026
Prosecutors accuse a former Cache County employee of using a claimed psychology doctorate to keep higher pay; the degree she later produced came from an unaccredited school, according to charging documents.
25 October 2026
Kenya's National Police Service says it is examining a radio interview in which nominated Senator Karen Nyamu described helping a supporter use a forged Form Four certificate to join the police.
25 October 2026
A staff validation exercise at Uganda's Parliament is checking academic certificates, appointment letters and qualifications against posts, with the Public Service Commission invited to oversee it.
24 October 2026
The Canada Border Services Agency says an investigation found fraudulent documents and false statements in temporary resident visa applications filed for 209 Bangladeshi nationals.
24 October 2026
Kenya's anti-corruption court convicted two former public employees on plea agreements this week, while the Retirement Benefits Authority said officers hired on forged certificates are not entitled to pensions.
24 October 2026
Police in Bareilly say they recovered 27 marksheets and certificates and 11 seals from a 45-year-old man accused of selling backdated graduation documents.
24 October 2026
A preliminary audit by Paraguay's Contraloría General checked more than 34,000 degree records across the public sector and has referred 1,090 unsupported qualifications to prosecutors.
24 October 2026
Brazil's Federal Police are investigating a private higher education institution in Amapá accused of issuing irregular diplomas through unauthorised distance-learning hubs. The case came to light after the state's social work council found inconsistencies in an applicant's documents.
23 October 2026
The Federal Constitutional Court has issued notices to a Punjab teacher accused of getting his job on fake credentials and to a former provincial law officer, and has asked why the teacher's qualifications went unchecked for four years.
23 October 2026
Kenya's anti-corruption commission says a former employee of the Office of the Auditor-General used a falsified secondary school certificate to get his job, at a cost to the public of about Ksh5.9 million.
23 October 2026
The East Jakarta District Court has ruled that the trial of former minister Roy Suryo, accused of defamation over public claims that ex-president Joko Widodo's degree is fake, will proceed to witness testimony.
22 October 2026
Balrampur police have arrested a man who had been absconding in a case over anganwadi helper jobs allegedly obtained with forged marksheets, taking arrests to 10.
22 October 2026
A government medical college in Uttarakhand cancelled a 2026 MBBS admission after an orphan-category certificate was found not to have been issued, adding to the state's ongoing scrutiny of category certificates in NEET-UG admissions.
22 October 2026
A 28-year-old trained paramedic told a Konstanz court he used a forged medical licence and certificates, bought from an online provider, to work as a doctor at a cosmetic clinic.
22 October 2026
An audit review by the Sindh Assembly's Public Accounts Committee found 27 Dow University employees held fake qualifications, while more than 3,400 staff degrees are still awaiting verification.
22 October 2026
Prosecutors in Panama detained up to 23 people in a second phase of an inquiry into forged academic credentials allegedly used to win public school teaching appointments.
21 October 2026
Registration numbers the council says it never issued surfaced during a website data migration; the three registrants did not appear when summoned with original documents.
21 October 2026
TASCAT found a former Launceston General Hospital nurse used a falsified university transcript and false registration details in repeated job applications between 2020 and 2023.
21 October 2026
A 20-year-old mainland student was sentenced to two months after a fake diploma was used both to enter a higher diploma course and in an immigration application.
21 October 2026
FinCEN says more than 20,000 potentially suspicious transactions since February 2026 have been referred to investigators, citing ghost-student and stolen-identity schemes.
21 October 2026
After finding that a single educational certificate was allegedly used to secure jobs for ten or more people, the court has ordered a statewide document check of teachers in Classes 1 to 8, with the Special Task Force examining the records.
19 October 2026
The Khairpur university has declared results, transcripts and degrees of 1,184 law candidates invalid, saying the records were entered into its system without lawful authority. Bar councils and the Higher Education Commission have been informed.
19 October 2026
Pune's police commissioner has said 19 candidates who entered the force under the 5% sports quota using allegedly fabricated Kurash certificates will be dismissed, as the crime branch widens its probe into the bodies that issued them.
19 October 2026
Hawaii's consumer affairs department has cautioned residents against online programmes that sell credentials without real study, and set out warning signs and verification steps that apply well beyond the state.
19 October 2026
A former teacher at a rural Eastern Cape school has been sentenced to eight years' direct imprisonment after pleading guilty to fraud, forgery and uttering linked to a Bachelor of Education degree used for his job.
18 October 2026
A Division Bench has upheld the removal of a Punjab primary teacher whose qualifying diploma was found to come from an institute that never existed, ruling that neither long service nor a later B.Ed. degree can cure the defect.
18 October 2026
Acting on an RTI complaint about students allegedly receiving results without attending classes, the Central Information Commission invoked Section 25(5) of the RTI Act to recommend surprise checks at affiliated schools.
17 October 2026
The SOG says one accused, a hospital owner who studied only up to Class 8, presented forged medical qualifications; the other allegedly used a fake degree from a Bihar college after failing the FMGE six times.
17 October 2026
Police say the accused failed the mandatory screening test for foreign medical graduates, then allegedly paid Rs 27-30 lakh each for forged pass certificates used to secure internships and medical council registration.
17 October 2026