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Is industry or business training best remedy for ‘diploma disease’?
Nowadays, completing at least a master's degree has become a norm among young adults in many countries since the bachelor's degree and the high school diploma currently contribute to poorer job prospects compared to
Read More »Port Authority Manager’s Degrees Draw Scrutiny
A top manager for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is suspended with pay while officials examine his college degrees
Read More »Two Oklahoma candidates for state Senate District 17 defend their education
One candidate for state Senate District 17 earned a doctorate from a now defunct “diploma mill” and the other earned an undergraduate degree from an unaccredited Baptist university in Indiana. Both candidates said they
Read More »Teacher gets 3 yrs in jail for using fake degree
A court here jailed a man for three years on Saturday for getting the job of a schoolteacher on the basis of a fake BEd degree. Bagjit Singh, a resident of Sandhwan village
Read More »Baton Rouge man booked after faking college degree
State officials say they have arrested a Baton Rouge man accused of faking his college credentials so he could apply for a job as director of an adult day care facility. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell
Read More »FAKE DEGREE: A stain on education sector
I REFER to the recent reports on police questioning 40 individuals over bogus degrees and certificates bought through a company in Klang Valley. What is worst is that more than 500 high-profile individuals are
Read More »Former QAU senior teacher given clean chit
The inquiry committee of Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU) has in principle given a clean chit to former head of Defense and Strategic Studies Department in a probe into allegations about fake PhD degree, the sources
Read More »PAC takes notice of ghost schools, fake degrees of PIA pilots
PAC has taken notice of media reports about ghost schools and PIA pilots having fake degrees. According to media reports, about 8,000 schools are located in Islamabad and its suburbs.
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