MY SHAM DEGREE FROM UK COLLEGE

[letric]

Offer to study for a degree in the UK turned out to be a sham....

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8165269.stm

[Wayne]

lectric,how do these kind of things happen to you? :? :roll: [smilie=dash2.gif] [smilie=english_en.gif]

[letric]

Enyaw, you are definitely hilarious...................

[mammadon]

it's unfortunate, but i guess the wish to study in the UK is overpowering.

I doh understand this though. Is studying anywhere in the UK good? Oxbridge, i can understand. LSE, Imperial, UCL, I can also understand. these are all world renowned universities.

but why go somewhere like hertfordshire university? or South Bank? :?

Back in their home countries, wouldn't a prospective employer care more about a degree from Oxbridge, or one of the top London unis?

[ebony02]

it's unfortunate, but i guess the wish to study in the UK is overpowering.

I doh understand this though. Is studying anywhere in the UK good? Oxbridge, i can understand. LSE, Imperial, UCL, I can also understand. these are all world renowned universities.

but why go somewhere like hertfordshire university? or South Bank? :?

Back in their home countries, wouldn't a prospective employer care more about a degree from Oxbridge, or one of the top London unis?

It depends on the sector.

What the students failed to do here is research these institutes thoroughly. See if they are accredited, visit their websites, etc.

The institutes are only 50 percent to blame. Unfortunately, people will continue to get scammed.

[guyguy]

Isn't Falcon a tenured professor at that College?

[mammadon]

it's unfortunate, but i guess the wish to study in the UK is overpowering.

I doh understand this though. Is studying anywhere in the UK good? Oxbridge, i can understand. LSE, Imperial, UCL, I can also understand. these are all world renowned universities.

but why go somewhere like hertfordshire university? or South Bank? :?

Back in their home countries, wouldn't a prospective employer care more about a degree from Oxbridge, or one of the top London unis?

It depends on the sector.

What the students failed to do here is research these institutes thoroughly. See if they are accredited, visit their websites, etc.

The institutes are only 50 percent to blame. Unfortunately, people will continue to get scammed.

true. even still, i think the idea of a foreign uni clouds people's perception too much. i guess all that glitters is not gold.

[Falcon]

That guy is a bit more than naive...I mean, you liaising with Indians/Sri Lankans all the while to attend a Brit University? If his degree in (h)India was so first class then looks like it was a BS degree rather than a CS degree...........

He jumped at the opportunity of a cheap education. He 'ignored' it at first :roll: then he contacted the guy and they did the business. No interviews? No further ducument submissions? No alarm bells ringing yet?

The fact that he was granted a student visa alost surely means the Sri Lankan has registered his school. But this first class fella ent do he homework, check alumni, check ranking, check the history.

Can't blame the Home Office for his own carelessness and lack of CS. I know many Indians who did MBA in India and they got the 'first-class' honours behind their qualification. Seems easiest to get one there!

He shoudla stay home.

[kayt]

Yes you have to do your homework when choosing colleges/universities. I checked at first through UCAS then other agencies. I checked the student makeup (this includes how many students would be from overseas, average ages of students and the ratio of the sexes), students comments on their unis, accreditations, graduation results, localities, travel network, other extra programs etc and I used more than one source for this information, each was independent of the other.