"Detecting Bogus Qualifications Has Never Been So Easy"

[Martin Eisenstadt]

Or so they say at Accredibase, a new UK-based service:

At a time when unaccredited educational establishments, diploma mills and unrecognised accrediting agencies are on the rise, Accredibase™ offers you an invaluable new resource.

This searchable global database brings together powerful information on bogus institutions from a variety of sources.

The aim? To help employers, educators and background screening companies secure only the best candidates with bona fide qualifications.

Sounds like it might be a helpful idea.  But wait, what's this??

6. How can you be sure that the information you’re providing is accurate?

We endeavour to ensure that the information held on Accredibase™ is accurate, and we have a team of researchers constantly checking and enriching the facts. However, as each profile is also built from a variety of third-party sources, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of the information it holds.

http://accredibase.com/index.php?section=872&page=4306

And how is this is any different from the ODA website or anything George Gollin picks out of his ass?  How about just actual facts for a change, without all the "enriching"?  

[RespectableGent]

That website seems to be defining a Diploma Mill as a institution which requires "little or no" work from its students before issuing a degree.

Well, they'd better add the regionally accredited Excelsior College onto that list of diploma mills. A place where students can earn a degree in under three hours.

http://www.dltruth.com/showthread.php?tid=720

[Virtual Bison]

I guess its a mill only if Gollin or Bear says it is.

I am surpirsed that none of these idiots ever considered entering Government. I think that spinning the truth would be right up their ally.

[DR ANATIDAE]

I guess its a mill only if Gollin or Bear says it is.

Is that the same Bear that invented Diploma Mills???????????????