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An institute purporting to provide  degree courses has changed its website and no longer says it conducts them in Hong Kong - a day after the South China Morning Post reported it was not registered to run courses locally.
The Kowloon-based Institute of Supply Chain Management,   chaired by Nagar Lai,  runs overseas MBA, doctoral  and other postgraduate courses. Until Thursday, the institute  said on its website that its students 'go to class in Hong Kong'.
But the wording yesterday had been changed to read that students 'take online courses in Hong Kong'.
The Education Bureau has launched an inquiry into the activities of the institute,  which the bureau confirmed is not registered  to run  degree programmes locally.
The institute on its website says that its courses can lead to postgraduate diplomas or degrees conferred by St Clements University,  registered in the Turks and Caicos Islands,  the South China University of Technology (SCUT)  in Guangzhou and the International American University,  in Palmdale, California.
But none of these  have registered  to run  courses in Hong Kong.
The institute's activities came into light in the wake of a US  federal investigation  into a diploma mill based in Washington state.  Last month, the Spokesman-Review   newspaper in Spokane, Washington, published more than 9,000 names - including at least 24 from Hong Kong - from  investigators' list of people who had bought fake academic paperwork.
'Philip Lai Man' is listed as having an associate professorship.
On Wednesday St Clements University listed 'Dr Lai Man Philip (Nagar)' as a PhD graduate on its website and said he headed  the Hong Kong Institute of Supply Chain Management.
Mr Lai admitted he was a partner of St Clements University but said 'Dr Lai Man Philip (Nagar)' was not him.
Yesterday that name had been replaced with 'Dr Nagar Lai' on the St Clements University website.



Institute no longer claims to run HK courses