12-03-2007, 03:32 AM
ham Wrote:There were recent headlines -in a post here lost in the crash - about an accredited university being investigated for basically "printing" degrees. Involved were several bureaucrats and IT service people who would fake entries in the student databases.
The difference between that and a blatant mill is that a blatant mill offers its "services" to anyone, while other arrangements require much red carpet and insider's knowledge of people who are willing to "help"...for a substantial fee, of course.
Years ago in Italy something similar happened.
To give another example, fast-passports from some poor African countries are publicly advertised; fast-passports from first world countries exist as well, but are very expensive and known to few.
Now we're getting somewhere, but you don't have the information available. That's too bad, it might have been useful.
Let's stay on-topic: RA schools that behave like mills. Info please. Best is if you can point to something that was a stronger kind of badness than just a corrupt person doing business on the side. Let's have some specifics about INSTITUTIONAL bad behavior.