Shadow Education Minister Walton Brown has accused Education Minister Nalton Brangman of lying about his academic credentials.While Mr Brangman maintains that he passed a pair of programmes at Bermuda College in the early 1980s, Mr Brown said the programmes didn’t exist at the college. However he said the Minister did take adult education courses during the period.In a statement, Mr Brown said: “In a January 21 press release [Mr Brangman] made the following statement: ‘I can confirm that I completed the Bermuda College technical programme, Electricity, Basic Theory and Application in 1983. Additionally, I completed the Bermuda College technical programme, Electricity, Advanced Theory and Application in 1985. Furthermore, the Bermuda College programs were completed with a successful grade in 1986’.“This is untrue. And as immediate past Chairman of Bermuda College I have a duty to challenge anyone who presents themselves as having earned a qualification when in fact they have not.“The Minister did take a continuing education course in 1983 and he did take a further continuing education course in 1985. He did not complete any programme. In fact, the programmes described by the Minister have never existed at Bermuda College.”Mr Brown continued to say that it is wrong by any ethical standard to misrepresent qualifications, saying: “I have to ask the Minister if he has contempt for the public by his misrepresentation of the facts.“It is an insult to every teacher who has worked long and hard to secure their qualifications to teach our young people to have their boss misrepresent his own qualifications.“Further, it sets the wrong example to our young people who we encourage every day to study hard because success in school is an important foundation for success in life.”Mr Brown called on Premier Craig Cannonier to “hold true to his commitment to both integrity and transparency in public office and act accordingly to bring this cynical abuse of public trust to an end”.Responding to the allegations, Mr Brangman reiterated that he had taken the courses as he had previously claimed, stating that his lecturers at the time were Albert Swan and Kelson Smith.“‘I can confirm that I completed the Bermuda College technical programme, Electricity, Basic Theory and Application in 1983,” Mr Brangman said. “Additionally, I completed the Bermuda College technical programme, Electricity, Advanced Theory and Application in 1985. Furthermore, the Bermuda College programs were completed with a successful grade in 1986.’”Representatives from the Bermuda College have not responded to requests for comment as of press time last night.