Surge in Fake MBAs Since Ruling - South Africa

carlosb · Jul 14, 2004

http://allafrica.com/stories/200407130205.html

Of the qualifications submitted to the company for verification, 14% were fake, said Kroll's Elmarie Liebenberg.

Liebenberg warned that some tertiary institutions , such as the University of SA, took legal action against job applicants who lied about their qualifications.

Virtual universities, such as Belford University "somewhere in the US", offered fake degrees, including a medical degree, based on "life experience" and "past study", said Van der Merwe. for which someone with a wad of greenbacks could end up with a medical degree. Belford even had a degree verification service.

Van der Merwe said Belford was only one of many.
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Compare the reaction of the University of South Africa to

http://chronicle.com/prm/weekly/v50/i42/42a00901.htm

"Kenneth L. Stanley, dean of the College of Business Administration, says he knew before hiring Mr. Malehorn that he had a fake Ph.D. "Hell, we knew it was worthless," says Mr. Stanley. "Give us a break!"

"But he hired Mr. Malehorn anyway because, according to the dean, it's not uncommon for professors, or even top administrators, to have bogus credentials. "I've dealt with provosts with degrees from mail-order institutions here in the United States," Mr. Stanley says. (He declines to name any of those provosts or their institutions
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And we wonder why DL is looked down on.

Just my opinion

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