LSE legal head Kevin Haynes said a degree from the University of London (UoL) in economics was not the same as a degree from the LSE, the Edge reported.

“We do not consider graduates of the UoL to be graduates of LSE,” Haynes replied in an email dated July 1 to queries from the Securities Commission (SC), it said.

The report said prior to this clarification, an email from the executive assistant directorate of the LSE, Leda Cosentino, had indicated that a degree from UoL in association with the LSE, could be accurately called a degree from LSE.

UoL and LSE have a collaboration under the UoL banner.

The report said this reply indicated that assertions that Jalil, who obtained a degree from the UoL, was not a LSE alumni were right.

Jalil tendered his resignation from PNB on June 13, after occupying the seat for nine months, citing personal reasons.

But the authorities seemed to suggest it was over discrepancies in his academic credentials. On July 16, the Dewan Rakyat was told the LSE had confirmed that Jalil was not a LSE graduate.

This prompted Jalil to tweet: “I resigned because I did not like where things were going. If somebody did not like me in return, could have just told me (nobody did directly), and I would have resigned. Easy.”

Asking “why this smear campaign to discredit (me)?” he said he had studied at the LSE as an external student and this was known to all his employers and friends.

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