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University of the People in Arabic
University of the People in Arabic is an additional diploma mill created by University of the People Education Ltd in Israel, specifically targeting the Arab market, including the Palestinian territories and Gaza, without disclosing that UoPeople is based in Israel. To achieve this, UoPeople operates a separate website in Arabic (ar.uopeople.edu), designed to sell American degrees to Arabic-speaking individuals who do not speak English and refuse to study English. Typically, students aiming to study in the US, Canada, UK, or other English-speaking countries must pass standardized English proficiency tests such as TOEFL or IELTS, ensuring they can understand their coursework. However, University of the People does not require any language proficiency tests—because doing so would eliminate a large portion of their customer base in the Arab world who want a US degree without knowing a word of English. Arab students have no idea that UoPeople is an Israeli organization. If they knew they were sending their money to Israel, they would immediately back out, and UoPeople would lose a significant portion of its targeted customers.
In other words, these fraudsters have found a way to make Israel financed by the Palestinians themselves.
The University of the People is located in Israel, and not in the US as this online school claims. If you don't know the real address of the University of the People, see our main page.
Basic English course
Actually, uopeople.edu (in English) has already issued US degrees to people who do not speak English. The website appears to require English certification, but in reality, if a student didn't have one, they could simply submit a fake certificate from Africa, possibly along with a fake high school diploma, or take a "Basic English course offered by UoPeople". Everyone knows that learning a language is a long process that requires extensive practice—a short online basic course is completely useless. However, uopeople.edu is only interested in collecting $4,000 and couldn't care less about whether students actually know English or not. On top of that, students who don't speak English are still required to assess other students' assignments and homework through UoPeople's highly controversial peer-assessment mechanism, simply because UoPeople does not employ professors or teachers to properly correct, grade, or assess students' work. The "volunteer instructors"—who are actually underpaid workers, mostly from developing countries—have no real employment contracts, meaning UoPeople is essentially running on illegal, tax-exempt cheap labor.
In reality, both students and instructors often just copy-paste random content generated by ChatGPT: this is how they "speak" and "write" in English.
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