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The Telegraph - Calcutta (Kolkata)
Jyoti Basu once called Mamata Banerjee a “420” (fraud) but Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee all along insisted he would “rather leave a white page blank than comment on her”. ... “She is a 420, a fake doctor,” Basu had said on the controversy around Mamata’s PhD and dubbed her “a violent woman (hingshasroyi mahila) who often pulls at the police’s uniform”.
WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports
College isn't easy. There are hours upon hours of homework and some courses are a total nightmare. But not all students are stressed. Meet Chester Ludlow. The 8-year-old pug got a college degree without even cracking open a book. His owner, Vicky Phillips, runs GetEducated.com -- a consumer advocacy group. She wanted to prove just how easy it is get a college degree, so she sent a fake resume and $499 check to Rochville University.
Background Screening Blog Pre-Employ.com
A spoof of online universities by NBC’s Saturday Night Live pokes fun at a very serious problem facing employers and recruiters using educational verification during background checks in today’s tough job market – so-called “diploma mills” where, for the right price, jobseekers can purchase documents showing that they earned a diploma or degree from a college or university.
In a fake commercial for the fictitious “University of Westfield Online,” SNL performers Fred Armisen, Nasim Pedrad, Jenny Slate, and Kenan Thompson tell how the “Internet college” taught them skills such as not mentioning in a job interview that they attended an Internet college, along with valuable techniques on how to avoid responding to the question of where they went to school that include changing the subject, mumbling, and faking a heart attack. After just four months of school, the diploma mill emails graduating students a .pdf file of a diploma with an intentionally unreadable name of a school so students can supply their own preferred choice (like Yale).
chicagotribune.com
With a scarcity of jobs, many people are trying to improve their skills or education. But several state residents have been duped out of hundreds of dollars by online schools that aren't accredited by the U.S. Department of Education. In an effort to obtain a high school diploma, an East Haven, Conn., woman was relieved of several hundred dollars by an online diploma mill, said Howard Schwartz, a spokesman for the Connecticut chapter of the BBB. When the woman applied for a job, she was told the diploma wasn't acceptable, Schwartz said.
Kyiv Post
A top Ukrainian state security official was sacked on Wednesday after reports he used a forged diploma from a prestigious university to further his career. The dismissal of Andriy Kislinsky came in a decree signed by President Viktor Yushchenko for whom he worked as an adviser and top administrator until his appointment three months ago as a deputy head of the SBU state security service.
Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education
Testifying before a U.S. House of Representatives education subcommittee, Robert M. Shireman, deputy under secretary of education, said the department has put in place systems to better monitor publishers of the assessments, known as "ability to benefit" tests, and will revisit regulations governing the tests during a rule-making session that starts in November. The department will also consider publishing lists of legitimate institutions and diploma mills to help for-profit colleges differentiate between valid and invalid degrees, he said.
Financial Adviser - WSJ
“Wanken asked that Malcolm W. Clarrissimeaux, who had been appointed four days earlier, be removed because those two degrees are listed as coming from Columbia State University. As Wanken pointed out in his petition, the only college with that name was shut down by court order in 1998 because it was a diploma mill operating from a Louisiana post-office box. Its owner, a hypnotist, pleaded guilty to nine counts of mail fraud in 2004. The purported school had no faculty, curriculum, tests or facilities, according to congressional testimony in 2004.”
