Athenaeum University International cops one from the Times Higher Education Supplemen

http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/

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An investigation by The Times Higher established that the Athenaeum University UK falsely claims on its website that it is listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation - the body that compiles the world list of recognised universities.

This week, Georges Haddad, the director of the higher education division at Unesco, said that the Heir website referred to by Athenaeum University UK had nothing to do with Unesco and that the establishment did not appear on Unesco's world register.

"Unesco has nothing to do with this," he said, adding that the similarity of name with the Athenaeum Club, and the claimed associations with learning and knowledge, could seriously mislead would-be students.

The "university's" website even refers - erroneously - to the creation of the Athenaeum gentlemen's club in 1824 by Sir Walter Scott and Thomas Moore, indirectly suggesting a connection between the two institutions.

Eric Thomas, Bristol University vice-chancellor and a member of the Athenaeum Club, said: "If there is a bogus operation capitalising on the Athenaeum name, I hope it ceases trading. It would be tragic if people were misled and relieved of cash because they assumed a non-existent association with a respected British institution."

Oh dear.

Cheers,

George

 

Athenaeum. What a joke!

Athenaeum University International (and I use the term "university" lightly), a nefarious diploma mill owned and operated by the notorious (and notoriously foul-mouthed, lying, and clearly personality disordered) JOHN DOVELOS, is, like its owner, not worth the (gun) powder it would take to blow it up!

Watch on AED, The Crabby Forum, and other such places where Dovelos routinely posts, for his foul-mouthed, psychotic attacks on me for having the temerity to just cut to the chase and call his good-for-nothing "institution" precisely what it is (and him, precisely the low-life, bottom-dwelling, piece-o-crap that he is) here and elsewhere.

Readers here are warned to:

• STAY AWAY FROM ATHENAEUM -- AND THE
  PSYCHOTIC DOVELOS -- AT ALL COSTS!

Or so it it my opinion.

 

I've written a lot about how the well-meaning Norwegian "HEIR" site is just what the diploma mill operators dream of: anyone can list any school, then claim that there is some United Nations approval.

I just looked at HEIR and it is much worse than before. Not only are there very large numbers of phonies there, but they have taken to adding long paragraphs attacking people and defending themselves. A search for St. Regis there (of course it is listed) produces a long diatribe about the evil Alan Contreras, etc.

http://www.siu.no/

Just to confirm that nothing has changed, I just added Catatonic State University to the list.

I wish the Norwegians would do something about this dreadful situation.

 

Re: Athenaeum. What a joke!

I nominate this one as my favorite post of the day!

 

Athenaeum photo

Here, in all its splendiferous glory, is a photo of the London location for Atheneum University International as shown in that Times Higher Ed Supplement article.