Fools at degreeinfo

[Fort Bragg]

Regarding what would be considered equivalent to regional accreditation in Canada.

http://forums.degreeinfo.com/showthread.php?t=31343

They seem to think that the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada is somehow an accreditor and with membership comes legitimacy.  If being a big state funded university means legitimacy then they've got it.

AUCC accepts only non-profit schools as members and while their membership includes all the biggest schools, it includes but a small fraction of legitimate schools including a minority of provincially operated schools and a small minority of the private non-profit schools.  Some accreditor!

[ham]

They seem to think that the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada is somehow an accreditor and with membership comes legitimacy. If being a big state funded university means legitimacy then they've got it.

Thomas Chip White (owner of degreeinfo) is a butt doctor without a university degree...all he can be an expert at is teen gay fairies cramming the entire living room up their love hole while he's behind the camera.
Then you get the frauds, millists and other 'funny' internet people...what do they know, anyways?
Look at the 'experts' who keep trying to apply the concept of 'state approved' outside of the USA...

[Fort Bragg]

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[Armando Ramos]

Look at the 'experts' who keep trying to apply the concept of 'state approved' outside of the USA...

Exactly.  The "experts" who never hesitate to express an opinion based on speculation, supposition or conjecture, without bothering with any of that troublesome research to determine if there are any actual facts upon which their grand pronouncements are based.  "I think..."  "My intuition tells me..."  "I imagine..."  Those are the "experts" at work.  Fools indeed.

[ham]

"I think..."  "My intuition tells me..."  "I imagine..."  Those are the "experts" at work.  Fools indeed.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with wild guesses and uninformed opinions EXPRESSED AS SUCH. The problem is that:
1 The vast majority of people have no clue soever
2 The most clueless are those who can't shut their trap
3 They present their uninformed guesses as FACTS...they are 'in the know'...they make seven figures tax free in the industry...

See the pathetic braggart in the capture here...
   
S-he claims that every gold record is worth 500.000 CDs sold...on the supposed wall of his supposed home, how many can you count? 20...?
Please...
And such music industry kingpin has nothing better to do than trolling online on third rate websites wowing third rate trolls like himself...all neurosurgeons, millionaires and body models, whose life is so glamorous Spielberg calls every week to buy the rights for a movie...all wasting their sevenfigures time typing away online...
PFFT!

[Dickie Billericay]

Good observation and the answer is 'no'. I don't think that it's necessarily true in Canada either.

Despite all the obvious simularities between our two countries, I don't think that forms of higher education recognition really translate straight across one-to-one.

For one thing, Canada simply doesn't have prominent private universities in the American sense. There's no Canadian ivy-league, no equivalent of Stanford or MIT. Few countries have strong private university sectors. Japan has one I think, at least to some extent, but it's an exception.

Canadian universities have historically been public provincially-run universities. What private institutions there were (mostly theological schools is my impression) were typically closely associated with one of the public universities, often awarding its degrees. It's only in recent years that Canada has been welcoming (albeit grudgingly) the appearance of a whole new collection of private degree-grantors, most of them small, poorly funded and proprietorial, emphasizing vocational degrees.

And that in turn seems to have been putting a lot of stress on provincial education authorities who don't seem to have always been prepared to effectively police the new entrants. Some provinces seem to be scrambling to catch up, writing new regulatory legislation, while the role of the AUCC seems to be subtly changing from an association of more traditional universities into more of an American-style accreditor.

My own layman's intuition, a rough rule-of-thumb, is that most Canadian provincial authorizations might be a step above most American state authorizations, but not exactly equivalent to RA either. More like ACICS or DETC perhaps. While the AUCC defines a class of school that's perhaps a little more mainstream and traditional than RA, at least at the low end, since it puts more emphasis on academic professor-stuff like doctoral programs and research. I can't imagine AUCC accepting some of the more jobs-related schools that the American regional accreditors have accredited.

Seems to me, Bill Dayson is a complete waste of DNA.  I can't imagine how Bill Dayson can ambulate when his head seems to be so far up his ass.  I think Bill Dayson might be a dumber than box of rocks, perhaps.  My own intuition is that nobody with a brain takes Bill Dayson seriously. I can't imagine a more self-important nimrod.

[ham]

Seems to me, Bill Dayson is a complete waste of DNA. I can't imagine how Bill Dayson can ambulate when his head seems to be so far up his ass. I think Bill Dayson might be a dumber than box of rocks, perhaps. My own intuition is that nobody with a brain takes Bill Dayson seriously. I can't imagine a more self-important nimrod.

It is the usual coulda, woulda, mighta kind of thing...may mean all things to different people...