Sentences with phrase «education diploma mills»

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Unlike many other diploma mills that hand out doctorates and PhD's to anyone willing to pay, accredited naturopathic medical schools are recognized by the US Department of Education and meet the same national and regional accreditation standards as medical schools.

And damn sure they never read about it in whatever passes for textbooks in most graduate schools of education, that lame crap masquerading as academic rigor in the diploma mills serving the education profession these days.

Charlotte, N.C. — Four men charged in a diploma - mill operation that sold thousands of bogus college degrees in education, business, engineering, medicine, and theology pleaded guilty here last week to federal fraud charges.

The program has been around for over two decades as a limited consumer protection agency designed to help victims fight against diploma mills and bad actors in the education industry.

Professional background screening companies maintain a database of legitimate educational institutions as well as known diploma mills to immediately identify them during the education verification process.

Diploma mills are organizations that claim to be a higher education institution but which offer illegitimate academic degrees and diplomas for a fee.

The Merriam - Webster Dictionary defines a diploma mill as «a usually unregulated institution of higher education granting degrees with few or not academic requirements.»

Bogus college degree claims: Whether reporting a degree not yet earned, lying about education never received, or presenting a fake diploma from an increasing number of so called «diploma mills» the threat of employees claiming false or overstated college degrees is a real problem.

Attorney Lester Rosen, founder and CEO of Employment Screening Resources ® (ESR) and author of The Safe Hiring Manual, wrote an article about education verifications to explain how employers can avoid being tricked by a diploma mills.

Employment Screening Resources (ESR)-- a leading provider of background checks accredited by the National Association of Background Screeners (NAPBS)-- provides education verifications to ensure that a school is legitimate and not a diploma mill.

While attempting to verify the education of an applicant for a director level position with a 100k + salary, the FirstPoint team discovered that the candidate had provided education materials that had been purchased from an offshore «diploma mill.»