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- Tough Economy Tough For Grads
- In the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression, millions of college students who will graduate this spring are now facing very bleak job prospects. Priya David reports from Washington.
- Videos 2009-04-18
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- Ed Department creates new site to help expose diploma mills.
- In a bid to help root out diploma mills, the Department of Education DoE has created a new Web site that lists schools that it sanctions. House Education Reform Subcommittee Chairman Mike Castle (R-Del.) said he wanted getting rid of diploma mills--universities that give...
- Research articles 2005-03-01
- Senator Seeks Probe of 'Diploma Mill' Job-Training Degrees.
- By Jennifer Beauprez, The Denver Post Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 8--U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, asked the General Accounting Office on Tuesday to investigate whether the federal government has funded diploma-mill degrees through its employee education and training programs. ...
- Research articles 2003-07-08
- Retired colonel to receive honorary U. diploma
- Retired colonel and Medal of Honor recipient Bernard Francis Fisher will receive his diploma from the University of Utah 57 years after leaving school because of active duty service in the Air Force during the Korean War. Fisher will receive his diploma, based on his academic achievement and...
- Research articles 2008-05-03
- Combating the problem of diploma mills.(Front and Center)(Brief Article)
- In response to the growing problem of diploma mills, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a new Web site where students and employers can access a master list of accredited colleges, universities and technical schools. According to the Education Department, "Diploma mills operate...
- Research articles 2005-04-01
- AMDG, Inc. and AOL@SCHOOL Partner to Deliver High School Courses Online; Millions of Students Can Take AP Classes, Earn Make Up Credits or a High School Diploma
- ATLANTA & DULLES, Va. -- AMDG, Inc., one of the nation's most comprehensive education and training institutions for online courses, and AOL@SCHOOL, a leader in online resources for teachers and students, today announced a partnership to deliver online high school courses. The partnership gives students, of all ages around the...
- Research articles 2006-07-14
- US prodigy Adu scores high school diploma at 14
- WASHINGTON AFP ? Freddy Adu, a 14-year-old American football prodigy playing in Major League Soccer, obtained his high school diploma from Edison Academy in Bradenton, Florida. Adu, who turns 15 on June 2, rejoined his club Saturday in Denver for a match against Colorado after wearing a cap and...
- Research articles 2004-05-22
- The Keyboard Campus.(Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education) (book review)
- Digital Diploma Mills: The Automation of Higher Education. By David F. Noble. Monthly Review. 116 pp. $21.95. "Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics," business "guru" Peter Drucker proclaimed in Forbes five years ago. "It took more than 200 years for the...
- Research articles 2002-04-22
- Barriers for some diploma holders?
- High school seniors failing the state's basic skills test still can go to college, education bosses have assured. But now, there's a question whether those students could get federal financial aid -- from scholarships to Pell grants -- without a hassle. The State Office of Education and Utah...
- Research articles 2005-11-21
- San Francisco grandmother, 98, gets high school diploma
- SAN FRANCISCO AFP — A diminutive grandmother donned a cap and gown and fulfilled a dream she had abandoned 80 years earlier -- she got her high school diploma. "I felt like I had missed something," Josephine Belasco said when asked what inspired her to complete the schooling she...
- Research articles 2006-06-14
- Thai Superstore Joins University to Offer Retail Business Management Diploma.
- By Sirikul Bunnag, Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 30--Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University and superstore operator Tesco Lotus plan to jointly offer a retail business management diploma course starting in June. The one-year programme, the first of...
- Research articles 2002-11-30
- Audit of Richland, Wash., nuclear reservation finds degrees from diploma mills.
- By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 28--The Department of Energy is tightening controls over tuition reimbursements after finding some Hanford employees were reimbursed for receiving degrees from suspected Internet diploma mills. An audit...
- Research articles 2004-09-28
- Diploma mill denial? EHS community silent on bogus degrees.(Managing Best practices)
- You should know that several government investigations into the educational qualifications of individuals in safety-sensitive jobs could affect the credibility of our profession. The U.S. General Accounting Office began investigating so-called diploma mills after the passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002. ...
- Research articles 2004-12-01
- GAO issues report on diploma mills. (In Washington).(General Accounting Office investigates fraudulent academic degrees)
- In response to a request from Sen. Susan M. Collins (R-Maine), the U.S. General Accounting Office GAO conducted an investigation into the proliferation of diploma mills, which sell what the GAO describes as "bogus academic degrees based upon `life experience' or substandard or negligible academic work."...
- Research articles 2003-03-01
- Fighting diploma mills by degrees.(News and Trends)
- Surely you've heard of the University of Berkeley, Hamilton University, St. Regis University, and the American University of London. Or have you? In fact, these schools are suspected "diploma mills"--colleges and universities offering worthless degrees-that require no work. They use familiar sounding names intended to make...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- COUNCIL OF EUROPE: FINNISH NATIONAL PARKS AWARDED EUROPEAN DIPLOMA
- Summary: Finland's Tammisaari Archipelago Vantaa and Seitseminen Parkano National Parks are to be awarded the Council of Europe's European Diploma at ceremonies to be held on April 25 at the Tammisaari visitors' centre and the following day at Seitseminen. The Tammisaari National Park covers an...
- Research articles 1997-04-22
- Cyber Solutions, Inc. Becomes American Graphics Institute as PA Approves Diploma Programs
- LANCASTER, Pa.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 2, 1999-- Cyber Solutions has changed its name to American Graphics Institute. The new name has been adopted as the school received approval from the Pennsylvania Department of Education to offer diploma programs. The school provides computer graphics training to publishers and printers, and will begin...
- Research articles 1999-12-02
- Concur Technologies: Street Debates Diploma-Gate
- Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: There’s a spirited debate on the Street Monday morning about what to make of the Diploma-Gate scandal that’s broken out at Concur Technologies CNQR, which provides software used to tracked employee travel expenses. (We actually use their software here at Dow Jones, and I find...
- External links 2009-03-23
- International Olympic Committee Diploma in Sports Nutrition
- The accredited and much talked about International Olympic Committee's IOC Spoils Nutrition Diploma course allows participants to be "virtual students" while employed full time. The following is a general overview of the course and some personal reflections on the practical issues/challenges encountered in this distance adult learning initiative.The course has...
- Research articles 2007-04-01
- Teachers Union Responds to Diploma Scandal.
- By IsraelNationalNews.com Israel's teachers union responded officially for the first time since the news of the diploma scandal broke last week. Union leader Avraham Ben-Shabbat and his deputy Uri Groman remain under house arrest, both alleged to have purchased fraudulent bachelors ...
- Research articles 2001-12-20
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