Sentences with phrase «of degree mills»

In Canada, all universities and colleges are under the direct supervision of the provincial and territorial governments, and there are no accreditation authorities, so the problem of degree mills is relatively rare.

The 1944 GI Bill provided educational opportunities for WWII veterans and refueled the growth of degree mills, resulting to government intervention, requiring all federally funded schools to be accredited (WASC).

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As for the Dr, in front of your name, I'd bet you are either very vain about it, or it came from a mail order degree mill.

They discovered that it was something of a «diploma mill» — a place people go to buy degrees.

There's a degree of superhuman confidence to a ballpark proposal that is required, whether you are a millionaire who just clinched a title or a poor schlub in the bleachers who's just hoping for your run - of - the - mill happily ever after.

When it comes to the transfer rumour mill, there are varying degrees of noise and nonsense.

Robinson completed his Master Degree in Community and Regional Planning from University of New Mexico with a professional project on planning for reclamation of uranium mine and mill sites in the former East Germany, and has 21 years experience as an environmental analyst specializing in the assessment of mine reclamation technology and programs.

The ideal preparation of rice would start with home - milling, to remove a portion of the bran, and then would involve souring at a very warm temperature (90 degrees F) at least sixteen hours, preferably twenty - four hours.

The rise of online diploma / degree and accreditation mills is a serious problem.

Giving more money to community colleges to provide better student support and less overcrowding of classes could go a long way toward putting some for - profits out of the degree - mill business.

Two men pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges last week for their involvement in an operation that included at least two illegal diploma mills that sold what a federal investigator describes as a «voluminous» number of fake university degrees.

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.

An Arizona man has admitted to bribing three Liberian diplomats between 2002 and 2004 to arrange for Liberia's accreditation of Saint Regis University, a Washington state - based «diploma mill» that sold phony college degrees over the Internet, including to some Georgia educators.

The 458 Speciale's naturally aspirated 90 - degree, 4.5 - liter V8 should crank out 596 hp at a screaming 9,000 rpm (compared to the run - of - the - mill 458's 562 hp); 398 lb - ft of torque will be available at 6,000 rpm.

The AKC would go broke if it lost any degree of puppy mill registrations, and they support the most heinous abuse imaginable to keep that money flow coming in to pay for those expensive dogs shows.

To some degree, I think I've been floating along that river in Egypt (De Nial)- far more pleasant to be «out of touch» rather than «in touch» with the true horrors of what goes on in puppy mills.

Puppy mills and kitten mills are a concern because of the mass numbers of animals involved and the degree of cruelty that these animals are subjected to through filthy living conditions, malnutrition, mass breeding and lack of veterinary care.

Social Interaction — By nature, most puppies are extremely social but if you purchased a dog through a rescue organization, there would be a chance that puppy had experienced some degree of trauma, perhaps abused by a private party or taken out of a puppy mill environment.

Here is our definition of «puppy mill»: any profit - centered breeding facility in which the number of dogs has exceeded the owner's ability and / or willingness to meet the physical and emotional needs of all of the animals to a degree that permits the animals to have a decent quality of life.

Robert Brown, in your example physics paper (posted 2:33 pm above) I found an error in the solution in 1 (b)... the word calculate is misspelled as «calcfulate»... does this qualify me for any credit towards a physics degree, or does that just make me a run - of - the - mill pedant?

«Mathematics may be compared to a mill of exquisite workmanship, which grinds you stuff of any degree of fineness; but, nevertheless, what you get out depends upon what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat - flour from peascod, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.»

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

Whether you're pursuing a Master's degree for employability reasons or you just absolutely adore learning and want to go further in - depth with your chosen subject, postgraduate study is remarkably different to your run of the mill bachelor's degree.

«If they got a degree at a diploma mill, that will be revealed in a respectable background check; if they didn't work at an employer they listed, or didn't have the job title they said they had, that will come out,» said Les Rosen, former California deputy district attorney; president of Employment Screening Resources of Novato, Calif.; and founding member of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners.

Also, employers should be aware of «diploma mills,» or phony schools that will provide job applicants a certificate or degree for a price.

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.

With a new report from Europe's leading background screening company revealing a 48 percent increase worldwide in the number of known diploma mills in the past year, some U.S. states have stepped up the fight against diploma mills defined in the report as «largely online entities whose degrees are worthless due to the lack of valid accreditation and recognition.»

That type of degree is illegal in some states and using a diploma mill degree to get a job is actually a felony in New Jersey.

As reported earlier on the ESR News blog, so - called diploma mills — defined as «largely online entities whose degrees are worthless due to the lack of valid accreditation and recognition» — are a growing problem in both the United States and worldwide.

Blown Moulding process, which is numerically milled to fit and satisfy the specific client to a degree of excellence which is the utmost to repetative business.

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn Thousands of United Kingdom (UK) nationals have purchased fake degrees from a multi-million dollar diploma mill in Pakistan with buyers including National Health Service (NHS) consultants, nurses, and a large defense contractor, a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) News investigation has discovered.