09-14-2011, 07:51 PM
(09-11-2011, 07:33 AM)Administrator Wrote: This is (or soon will be) the complete list and available content of posts made on a formerly “secret” Degreediscussion.com forum they call “The Gang.” This information was provided to us by a confidential informant and is believed to be reliable. It is reproduced here as a public service and is not intended in any way as an endorsement of the sordid individuals involved or their dissolute conduct.
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Although I am not from the US and not really familiar with issues of universities and colleges, both in distance and non-distance education, there - I have a fair whom you are referring to with regard to "the gang" at degreediscussion.com.
I am just wondering whether those people at degreediscussion.com have nothing better to do than just just rant over all kinds of unaccredited or meanhwhile accredited schools (that are NOT degree mills). Instead of ranting and publishing their trash on degreediscussion.com, they'd better do something themselves by either setting up schools or working for some of the existing ones as volunteers. But they surely lack the expertise to do that - building and developing a curriculum, putting all the textbook material together for a degree program that meets the general academic standards of other reputable universities, writing syllabi and developing exam and tests...- all that requires a certain amount of special expertise in the subject area in question. If done properly, it is hard and honest work that proves to be very demanding on the person(s) involved in it.
If they are so much better than those already involved in such a process and such efforts, why don't they do their thing to prove to the world that they actually are that much better? Words alone are empty without appropriate actions following them...
Well, the hard truth is they are facing is this: On that board with all the other ranters, losers, and the other highly questionable individuals around, they may be somebody in the company of like-minded souls. To the rest of the world, they are insignificant, unimportant nobodies as they have never done anything meaningful and rewarding in their lives than just posting their rants and trash on exactly that board.
To us in Kenya, such individuals and their opinions mean nothing - all they can do is to throw their dirt on schools like IFTS that try to make a difference. In Kenya, there are also many bogus universities and degree mills. But here, the competent government authorities have a close eye on them, and there have been several raids by police from time to time on them.
Raiding degree mills and genuine reputable schools that try to make a difference is a concrete act of betterment and helping the advance of quality education, which these folks with a big mouth on degreediscussion.com have never served
The world could well do without these folks as they are absolutely useless!