Oxford student rips off Warnborough University

I just love this - what a hoot!

http://www.discourse.net/archives/2004/02/now_a_genuine_nightmare.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/3503891.stm

http://michael-friedman.com/archives/000160.html

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2550375

http://www.oxfordstudent.com/2004-02-19/news/12

Mr. Richardson, 23, an undergraduate engineering student at the University of Oxford , had apparently responded to an advertisement posted on behalf of Warnborough University , in Canterbury , which was in touch with the Chinese institution where the lectures were to occur.

Mr. Richardson declined comment to The Chronicle. "The master of my college has asked me not to speak to the press anymore," he said. According to the Daily Telegraph, a British newspaper, he faked his lectures by reading from chapters torn out of an economics textbook, Introduction to Global Financial Markets, by Stephen Valdez.

"I was learning as much as my audience," Mr. Richardson told the Telegraph.

When he began to run out of chapters, he skipped out and flew home. "I have no idea what [the students] thought when they returned from their coffee break to discover their lecturer had fled," he told the newspaper.

His website is at http://www.matthewrichardson.com

Cheers,

George

 

Warnborough isn't funny, but this story is.