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.
