Saint Regis University moves to Liberia

Yup, they've moved their Website (earlier http://www.saintregisedu.org) from http://www.stregisuniversity.ac to http://saintregis.edu.lr. As far as I can tell, they are the only university in the lr domain.

 

Does that mean anything?

 

Is there any other web site at all in the lr domain?

 

Lordikus wrote:

> Does that mean anything?

To prospective students, no. It was foolish to enrol there before, and it's foolish to enrol there now.

Bill Huffman wrote:

> Is there any other web site at all in the lr domain?

Good point: maybe not. Google has heard of a Web page http://www.micat.gov.lr/nation.htm, but hasn't cached it.

If you want to start your own Liberian Website, here is the application form:
http://www.psg.com/dns/lr/
http://www.psg.com/dns/lr/lr.txt
The naming structure includes com.lr, edu.lr, gov.lr, org.lr, and net.lr. "Registrations must be from organizations with a real presence in Liberia".

 

Hmm than I will keep on (en)rolling

 

quiz

Welcome ladies and gentlemen, to the first episode of our quizshow "Quest for the faked degree".

1. St. Regis finally moving to liberia, from where they say they have an accredition. The country in which a college or university is resident has to accredit it. Makes this the use of the fake degrees legal?

2. How did trinity college & university get an .edu domain?

3. How in the blue hell is Kristiaan De Ley and what are his connections to Concordia College & University and Capitol University?

4. and last. Sort this degrees from their value. 1. most valuable etc.

St. Regis University degrees
Concordia degrees
Capitol University
Trinity College & University
Mc Donalds menue card
Burger King bill
KFC degree of frying

*G*

 

Re: quiz

Hey, don't knock Hamburger University. You need to graduate from there to start your own McDonald's franchise, and that can be very lucrative.

http://www.mcdonalds.com/corporate/careers/hambuniv/

 

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?newslett=1&click_id=68&art_id=qw1053972365313B241&set_id=1

This is sick. Anyone else notice that all NBOE/SRU material mentions one single official in the Liberian embassy in Washington? As to the .lr domain, there is (no link, sorry) a government propaganda website in it, too. Not much else.

Neither the Cuttington nor the UL contact site uses .lr; Cuttington uses .org--the exception that proves the rule, I guess, about the .org warning. The other legit schools appear to have no website at all and may no longer be functioning.

 

So St Regis is in Liberia!

For the Master of Public Administration program, do you have to provide your own bullets?

 

Several years ago-- around 1999, I think-- the Liberian embassy in Washington was moved to an employee's apartment for a short time. Seems they had a tiny bit o' trouble paying the chancery rent. As has been mentioned in other threads, the average Liberian civil servant hasn't had "official" payment in quite some time. I don't believe their diplomats are in better shape, to the point where it's plausible that certain diplomatic missions are "self supporting" through fees for visas, replacement passports for expatriate Liberians, and other consular services. "Accreditation" isn't a far leap from that. In short, a reference to their embassy doesn't fill me with confidence it might otherwise carry.

A Liberian-based ISP would require a myriad of things that simply don't exist in Monrovia. And finally, a colleague in Monrovia tells me that no physical evidence of the ersatz-school's existence can be found, despite a fairly intensive search for the same.

The whole thing is a scam of the lowest possible order. One sad aspect? If not for the horrific infrastructure deficiencies-- electricity, telephones, mail-- it'd probably be actually cheaper and easier to set up an actual, real-life, legitimate university in Liberia than to go through the contortions that SRU is executing to SIMULATE a presence there.

 

I've moved Burlap University to Liberia. Instead of paying $50,000 for accreditation from those dishonest con-artists, I instead have started up my own government. The Department of Education of the Disunited Regions of Liberia will accept applications for accreditation. For $25,000 (donated to your favorite charity) the Department of Education of the Disunited Regions of Liberia will grant you accreditation for one year.

 

Now there's an idea. Maybe LURD or MODEL or some of the Liberians in exile here have enough of a shadow govt to have a MOE...

 

I really can't think of anything to respond with but I just noticed that Uncle Janko is getting close to my number of posts and if he passes me then people will have to believe him instead of me.

 

But what makes degree mill scams so unique, compared to run of the mill scams, is that both the scammer and the scamee are equal and willing accomplices. I used to think a bit differently, but have come to my own conclusion that it is a very rare duck (or NZ Teal) that actually goes into these arrangements ignorant of what they are doing. I am convinced that the degree mill is simply supplying a product to the many willing and knowing consumers of their product. Oh, call them out and all of a sudden many otherwise intelligent adults become as witless as a bottom quartile high school freshman student in an upper division calculus class…"Uh, I didn’t realize it was bogus. I was just trying to better myself and blah, blah, blah…" While others defend their choice of educational institutions as legitimate and a worthwhile learning experience.

So, is it really a scam when both sides of the table are playing the same game?

 

Bill, don't you know that wisdom comes from age, not volume of words. You being a member since Feb 2001, and Uncle Janko since Aug 2002, it is mathematically impossible for UJ to surpass your seniority (read: wisdom), no matter how many posts he has. You will always be the wiser, elder statesman due to your length of service.

Of course, keeping in mind that you are just a young pup to me, having experienced an additional month of service before you came on board. My wisdom, through the life experience path on this forum, will always exceed yours and Uncle Janko's. So, I guess that means that, though I have fewer posts, the wisdom of my utterance will always shine just slightly more resplendent that yours or Unkle Janko's.

I would be happy to share my life experience credits with you, but I will need to review your resume. Wait, that would be too much work. If you simply vouch that you do indeed have a resume, I could offer several life experience credits which would be applied toward increasing your seniority status.

 

Thanks Paul, I'm indeed blessed, not only because of your obviously greater senority and wisdom but in addition this wisdom is much more concentrated in your case since it has only been divided by some 230 posts.

 

Believe it or not, there are apparently two.

I found a link to one: Ecotech

In their "About" section, they talk about the high prices of the "other" ISP in Monrovia.

 

Oh gorp.

 

Now fake certifications as well

And now, if the earlier stuff was not scary enough, the "National Board of Education" is offering professional certifications in engineering, health, education, and most other fields, no questions asked.

http://www.apolloci.com/

 

Liberia - Unsafe for aid

... but safe for education?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2944544.stm


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