03-19-2010, 05:01 AM
Diploma Mills, in the truest sense are hard to kill in the internet age.
If I were a dishonest person (which I am not) I could easily recruit a straw buyer in some country like Malaysia or Romania to put up a website and sell diplomas by Proxy. Its really easy since you just put up a slick website with pictures of tree shaded New England campuses with happy, smiling young people carrying books. Offer courses in any dam thing you want, from Medicine to Cooking to whatever... and voila, we have a school.
Incidently, did anyone happen to see the movie Accepted? That was a total hoot!
Eventually when word gets out, the school will be forced to close and then you set up elsewhere.
As sad as it may seem, the more expensive the cost of education gets, the more attractive diploma mills are. Sometimes students are unaware that they are being duped. Sometimes they are but only want a quick and cheap fix.
If I were a dishonest person (which I am not) I could easily recruit a straw buyer in some country like Malaysia or Romania to put up a website and sell diplomas by Proxy. Its really easy since you just put up a slick website with pictures of tree shaded New England campuses with happy, smiling young people carrying books. Offer courses in any dam thing you want, from Medicine to Cooking to whatever... and voila, we have a school.
Incidently, did anyone happen to see the movie Accepted? That was a total hoot!
Eventually when word gets out, the school will be forced to close and then you set up elsewhere.
As sad as it may seem, the more expensive the cost of education gets, the more attractive diploma mills are. Sometimes students are unaware that they are being duped. Sometimes they are but only want a quick and cheap fix.
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe