St Clements University is a higher education institution which has reported itself to be registered in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
[5] St Clements University Higher Education School in Niue states that it was licensed by the Niue Minister of Higher Education in March 2005 and is approved by the Association of Computer Professionals and the Association of Tourism and Hospitality Executives to teach their programs.
"[9] In 2020, St. Clements University appointed Roderick Andrew Lee Ford, an American attorney and former judge advocate attorney in the United States Army, as its chancellor and whose primary mission is to review all university programmes, accreditation status, and policies in an effort to upgrade its academic standing in various states in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, the British West Indies, Africa, Asia, and Europe.
In 1999, under parliamentary privilege, Senator Kim Carr referred to a number of institutions including St Clements University which, in his opinion, were operating from Australia as "degree mills".
[15] Senator Carr subsequently referred to St Clements as reminiscent of "the famous pirates of old ... using legal devices and incompetence by government ministers and making a bridgehead into this country’s educational institutions" and as being operated out of a "grog shop" (Australian slang for a liquor store).