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Man gets jail for selling forged documents
A racketeer P. Ravichandran, involved in selling forged documents for surety purpose to help several those accused of grave crimes get out of jail, has been sentenced to undergo rigorous imprisonment for 15 years. Underlining
Read More »The pressure to get a college degree
In the quest to obtain a college degree, some have opted for an easier route. This was affirmed by a finding of the Ministry of Higher Education which has identified 110 offices selling forged
Read More »Vietnam police bust up pricey diploma mill
Police in Can Tho have shut down an expensive forgery ring that sold faux diplomas for between VND11- 90 million (US$500-4,500). Nguyen Viet Anh, 33, Nguyen Hong Dao, and Cao Bang Giang, 40, all of
Read More »Bulgaria’s ex-EU farm aid chief sentenced for fake degree
A check of the university books found that Ilieva had indeed enrolled but never earned a degree after failing to attend any lectures or take a single exam. Ilieva headed the primary institution that distributed
Read More »TN minister parading ‘fake’ degree sparks row
The country's ministers seem to have taken a fancy to embellishing educational qualifications on their official profiles. A Class VI failure by his own admission, Tamil Nadu's minister for Information and Technology, Mukkur N. Subramanian,
Read More »Higher education views naive, distorted
Dan Linssen's Op-Ed critique of higher education, which morphs into advocacy for self-study as the answer to "four-year diploma mills," is utterly naive and exemplifies what you get when you skip out on the
Read More »Saudis crack-down on fake degrees
The Saudi Ministry of Higher Education has uncovered 110 offices selling forged degrees from non-Saudi universities, press reports said yesterday. “The agencies were supplying these bogus degrees for the past several years,” said Muhammad Al-Ouhali,
Read More »What You Need to Know About Diploma Mills
A diploma mill is a company that awards unaccredited degrees and provides either an inferior education or no education at all. If you're considering attending an online school, learn as much about diploma mills
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