Khan and Tabassum (CCOL: Postgraduate Certificates) Bangladesh: UTIAC 8 Jun 2011

UTIAC (1) Those who assert they were awarded postgraduate certificates in business management (and IT) by Cambridge College of Learning, after completing relevant courses there, will have to surmount the important and obvious problem that, if such certificate courses had been run and examined by CCOL, and certificates awarded to successful candidates, the witnesses who gave evidence to the Tribunal in NA and Others (Cambridge College of Learning) Pakistan [2009] UKAIT 00031 and who were found credible, would have said so. There was no credible evidence before the AIT in that case to suggest that any postgraduate courses in business management or IT were taught and examined by CCOL. It follows that, whilst the evidence in each case must be individually assessed, NA and Others is indicative of there being no such thing as a genuinely issued CCOL postgraduate certificate in those subjects and it is therefore necessary for a claimant seeking to rely on such a certificate to adduce cogent evidence in support.
(2) For the correct way to approach the use of the determination in NA and Others, see paragraphs 32 to 40 of the Upper Tribunal’s determination in TR (CCOL cases) Pakistan [2011] UKUT 33 (IAC).

Judges:

Lane SIJ

Citations:

[2011] UKUT 249 (IAC)

Links:

Bailii

Jurisdiction:

England and Wales

Immigration

Updated: 15 September 2022; Ref: scu.441711