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by Mike Masnick




Top Government Officials Bought Degrees Online With Your Tax Money

from the how-nice dept

Turns out that it's not just teachers and university presidents who buy their degrees online from so-called "diploma mills", but plenty of high ranking government officials - many of whom received "tuition-reimbursement" for the degree. Of course, as the article points out, the definition of what is a diploma mill is a bit tricky. Still, it seems clear that many people simply bought degrees online and used government funds to pay for them.

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  1. May 13th, 2004 @ 1:32pm

    One reason for this

    by Paul M Johnson

    Part of teh reason for this is that many organizations pay and.or people more just because they have a slip of paper rather than on their actual skills. When you do things like that you encourage this behavior.

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  2. May 13th, 2004 @ 2:09pm

    No Subject Given

    Hey, just be glad they wearen't lying about having fkae degrees...

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