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"Parochial" in what way?

I don't understand that at all. How can somebody simultaneously reject and embrace the American educational system? Why would American degrees be desirable when our accreditation isn't?

Accreditation embodies the quality assurance function. Criticism of accreditation seems to imply the proposition that universities need no external oversight. Is that what you mean to say?

Every other country that operates a credible higher education system has an activity analogous to accreditation. Does your criticism of accreditation extend to those nations as well?

 

Hello Mr. Neil,

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I would also like to inform to all the respected members of this forum that my objective to choose FTU was based on affordability factor.

As long as the same came from an approved US education body like BPPVE. I am a direct salesperson and my choosing a RA MBA would not have made any difference to my profession.

Cheers,

Amit.

 

Yo, Bill,

I don't think I could put it better than my Penguin English Dictionary does:-

Parochial: "limited in range or scope ... provincial, narrow"

My theme regarding US RA operations is that it is a self-serving methodology foisted on the legitimate holders of educational authority in America.

I'm not too sure if that model is repeated around the world .....

Cheers,

Neil

 

Ike,

Think of the apostille as a government notarization; the person who does that is the Secretary of State. The apostille makes the document official; it does not say anything about the contents of the document, be it a diploma (degree certificate), birth certificate, or a letter from the mayor of Indianapolis declaring that I wasn't already married.

Regards,

jon
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"Show Signature" box NOT checked, as Samuel Xavier doesn't like it.

 

I go away for the weekend, and find:

As BillDayson wrote: "My basic axiom is: If a person claims a degree from a university teaching in a particular language, it is reasonable to expect a minimal level of literacy in that language. . . . It is certainly not xenophobia to demand an equivalent academic standard from all students, no matter where they were born.
Anything else is condescension."

My wife, a native Flemish speaker, is currently a student at IU School of Law. She is taking her courses in English (Indianapolis not being known as a hotbed of Flemish culture :eek , which is her fifth language. Her exams are graded "blind," and no concessions are made that she (and several of her classmates) are taking the exam in something other than their mother tongues.

And this assertion is based on what evidence?

As you are by assuming that is what I base any assessment of FTU on. Yet I posted no such assessment; I explained what an "apostille" is -- and is not. And I would happily argue that FTU is content in allowing its grads to think the apostille is something it it not.

Your assumption here is wrong; moreover, you are putting words into my mouth. Nor do I get off on grammar and spelling flames. (An aside: I thought about doing a Doctoraat in Geschiendenis at Leuven after my PhD. I came to my senses, tho' -- doing *another* doctorate, this time in Dutch, was too depressing).

AH! So you don't like the signature file. Get over it: it's my .sig file from my campus account, nothing more, nothing less. And since you're a BU PhD, you'll know that a lecturer is the lowest of the low, and one hardly brags about holding such exalted status .

Regards,

jon


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J. M. B. Porter, PhD
Lecturer in World History

 

Dear Samuel,

I think I know what you're trying to emphasize...but isn't your whine about this title a little 2 much?

Byran

 

Opps, I meant to say "his" title....