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Many people say there is absolutely zero aggregate difference amongst various countries in terms of both governance and culture. Could something like this, on such a scale, actually fly in a western country?
Axact has given an official response. Read it here http://www.techjuice.pk/axacts-official-response-to-new-york... According to the response this article is baseless and Axact has threatened to pursue this case through court.
Interesting - a quick search of reviews on Glassdoor for Axact found multiple employees complaining about the company's unethical business: http://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Axact-Reviews-E333658.htm July 27, 2013: “Great benefits, great learning but ethically wrong! ” "Also the company deals in fake online university degrees and also providing research papers to students. The research paper part would not be so bad i…
>“Kills your market worth as a professional” That is the most brutal review on an educational programme I've ever read
Here's one of their sites: Columbiana University.[1] The name is similar to the Columbiana campus of Kent State University, but the two are unrelated. CNN's IReport site, which publishes press releases without checking them, has one of their bogus PR announcements.[2] Our SiteTruth system is not happy with their site.[3] "No street address found on site ... Secure certificate: No valid certificate. ... Rating: Site o…
>>Here's one of their sites: Columbiana University.[1] The name is similar to the Columbiana campus of Kent State University, but the two are unrelated. Actually, they were probably trying to sound similar to Columbia University, which is an Ivy League school.
Personally, I think too many schools are essentially diploma mills. I waiting for good Ivy League Internet school that has low tuition, or free. I believe it will come one day? I understand a student wanting a Master's, but the little extra knowledge gained with a Phd seems pointless?
Personally, if I was hiring a candidate and he told me he stuck around the university 2-3 extra years working on a non-original thesis; I would hire the guy with the masters.
I wish the U.S. Government did away with all degree requirements in hiring for federal jobs, unless the job requires a license(medicine, engineering, law, etc.) and only hired applicants on test scores.
I sometimes feel if a person can pass a series of tests designed to test whether a person can do a job; they shouldn't be penalized for not going to college? (The tests would have to be of high caliper like the California Bar exam.)
Axact's response (lol): http://www.axact.com/defamation-response/
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> i guess there's zero editorial oversight in the iReport section. That's explicitly stated. "The stories here are not edited fact-checked or screened before they post." http://ireport.cnn.com/about.jspa
Yet they are under the CNN.com domain name, not cnnusercontent.com . therefore CNN.com 's reputation should suffer for it. (hello, Google PageRank team!)
Many people say there is absolutely zero aggregate difference amongst various countries in terms of both governance and culture. Could something like this, on such a scale, actually fly in a western country?
This Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploma_mills_in_the_United_St... gives a number of examples of US authorities shutting down diploma mills.
Many people say there is absolutely zero aggregate difference amongst various countries in terms of both governance and culture. Could something like this, on such a scale, actually fly in a western country?
This is common knowledge for everyone in Pakistan. But they serve legal notice to anyone who says something about it. Famously, Jehan Ara (president of PASHA) was sued for exactly that. Today an acquaintance got takedown notice just for posting link to this article on his FB/Twitter.
Did your acquaintance post it on his/her personal account? I find it alarming that corporations can censor what you share on your own private space online.
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>>Here's one of their sites: Columbiana University.[1] The name is similar to the Columbiana campus of Kent State University, but the two are unrelated. Actually, they were probably trying to sound similar to Columbia University, which is an Ivy League school.
The guy(John Grey) who wrote Guys are from Mars, and Women from Venus got his Phd form Columbia University, San Rafael Ca. Personally, I think too many schools are essentially diploma mills. I waiting for good Ivy League Internet school that has low tuition, or free. I believe it will come one day? I understand a student wanting a Master's, but the little extra knowledge gained with a Phd seems pointless? Personally,…
I think you might be a misinformed. A Ph.D. does not give you "a little extra knowledge" over a Master's. It allows you to deeply specialize in a small part of a given field. By the time you get your Ph.D., you're one of the world's foremost experts on that narrow topic. The value of that might be arguable based on what you studied (e.g. linguistic history of languages in Tanzania might be too obscure), but a Ph.D. is far more knowledgeable than someone with Master's.
The primary difference between a Master's and a Ph.D. is that the former is industry-oriented whereas the latter is research-oriented. That the latter is a continuation of the former is a a common misconception.