Apparently, dictators buy fake degrees, too

I was scrolling through the pics of the palace of the dictator of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, who has since been disposed, and was quite surprised (and somewhat amused) to see a diploma from Kensington University hanging on his wall...

Inside a dictator's palace: Fake diplomas, sports cars, stuffed leopard - CNN.com

It's the fourth pic in the series. :tongue:

 

The Kensington University diploma is a doctorate in political science. Perhaps the dictator's focus of study was totalitarianism.

 

If you have that much money, create a real school and award yourself a PhD in "Everything Known to Man"

 

A reminder that Kensington was, for quite a few years, a California State-Approved school, and their law degrees qualified one to sit for the state Bar exam.

 

Back in the day, wasn't it somewhat common for less-than-wonderful schools to have CA approval, at least for a short amount of time?

 

Kensington University strikes again. I was reading Eric Schmidt's daughter's account of their recent (and bizarre) trip to North Korea. I got near the end of the first column and found this gem....

The mausoleum also had large trophy rooms for the Leaders, with medals, honorary citizenships and a veritable rogue's gallery of grip-and-grin portraits of the Kims and their various friends: Oh hey, Hafez Assad, Fidel Castro, Teodoro Obiang... Also noteworthy: only U.S. contribution was an honorary degree from the bullshit Kensington University. Aw, nobody told them.

https://sites.google.com/site/sophieinnorthkorea/home