VERA FILES FACT CHECK: The University of Oxford did NOT put up ‘Marcos did not graduate here’ signage
There is no truth to the claim that such a statement was put up at any Oxford building.
There is no truth to the claim that such a statement was put up at any Oxford building.
Maling nag-ulat ang Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) News, ang news broadcasting arm ng televangelist na si Apollo Quiboloy, na si presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. ay “pumasa” sa kanyang bachelor’s degree sa social studies sa University of Oxford sa United Kingdom.
Sonshine Media Network International (SMNI) News, the news broadcasting arm of televangelist Apollo Quiboloy, erroneously reported that presidential aspirant Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. “passed” his bachelor’s degree in social studies at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
The evidence presently unraveling on Bongbong Marcos’ educational attainment has brought out another distressing angle: It was poor Juan de la Cruz who subsidized it.
“The term ‘alumni’ is not synonymous with ‘graduates’. One can be an alumnus without graduating,” it said in an email response to VERA Files Fact Check.
Speaking at the 25th commencement exercises of the Philippine College of Commerce (now Polytechnic University of the Philippines) on April 1, 1978,the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos mentioned that his only son and namesake Ferdinand “Bongbong” R. Marcos, Jr. was “still a senior at Oxford.”
"The special Diploma was not a full graduate Diploma,” says Oxford University.