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23.11.2022 - 08:25 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A midwife has been suspended for nine months after a panel ruled she had created a fraudulent Masters degree certificate to apply for a director's job at a military hospital in Saudi Arabia.
Mary Clarke, 59, didn't even need the additional Midwifery qualification to apply for the role at King Fahad Military Medical Complex in the Middle East. However, it was found she created a fake Edinburgh Napier University certificate with the forged signature of a dead man and sent it off as part of her application in early 2019.
Clarke was busted after Napier University was asked to verify the authenticity of the degree by recruiters at the hospital. The university, where Clarke completed her midwifery undergrad in 2001 had no record of her receiving a Masters degree in 2007. Clerks at the university also spotted the certificate appeared to have been signed by the uni chancellor who had passed away four years earlier.
Napier staff told the panel they spotted several similarities between the fake degree and Clarke's genuine undergraduate certificate, which she had been awarded by Napier in 2001. They added that official records showed the already qualified midwife was not even halfway towards the 180 academic credits needed for a Masters.
Clarke admitted to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) that she listed the degree on her CV, but denied making a dishonest bid to tart up her application.
She told the hearing the award had been posted to her and she had given it no second thought, as a lecturer had advised her she was eligible for it. However, she could not provide proof she had achieved the credits needed for the top-class degree.
The panel concluded that her story was "not plausible" and that the midwife had acted dishonestly,
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