Dhaka, June 28 -- Academic qualifications purportedly from Bangladesh are among the five most frequently falsified in postgraduate applications to UK universities last year, with nearly 5 percent of international offers involving false claims, the Financial Times reported.

Certification company Qualification Check's analysis of about 55,000 offers made by 45 UK higher education institutions during the 2024-25 admissions cycle found that many applicants did not hold the grades or degrees they had declared.

It said many of the UK's 150 universities still do not carry out thorough checks to verify applicants' qualifications, despite advances in artificial intelligence making forged certificates and academic records easier to produce.

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