Now that you’re mentioning, it’s also a component of certificates like the PMP, where coursework, am exam, and related experience are all required.
Maybe that’s the real problem – too many jobs are in the coursework-only pigeonhole, when either a mix of either coursework only (+a practicum?) or experience + fewer courses and an exam should get you there.
Right.
No results found for “bachelor’s degree or apprenticeship required”.
But maybe they’ll get some popularity, at least in some areas.
Meanwhile in Canada…
I’m laughing so hard right now.
This dudes self-described titles are amazing!
In his LinkedIn profile, he is described as an "Artificial Intelligence Gamification Patent Inventor, Key Note Speaker, Professor, Author.
So, a fraud is angry that the no-work degree he paid sizable money for was equally fraudulent. Wow.
It is rather laughable that this guy thinks this is legit, but what scared me was the last two paragraphs in the article:
The Marketplace investigation revealed there are more than 800 Canadians who could have fake degrees.
Many Canadians could be putting their health and well-being in the hands of nurses, engineers, counsellors and other professionals with phoney credentials, Marketplace found.
Some Canadians will fall victim to fraud. That’s a fact of life.
The numbers aren’t particularly worrisome: that’s equivalent to a village spread across the country, and chances are that only a small percentage of these people will be able to bullshit their way into official backing. The rest will take up “work” on the fringes pandering to the gullible.
Capitalism and a system that wants results now!!
Gullible people deserve to be safe and healthy too.
Yes, but it’s like the old saw about leading a horse to water: you cannot ensure that they make intelligent decisions; for practical purposes, you cannot shut down all the fraud artists (as long as there is a demand for easy solutions, new ones will pop up daily); and you really can’t take away the right of the gullible to make their own choices, not without creating even larger societal problems than you solve. About the best you can do is come down hard on con artists when they cross the line.
“I thought that was great. They should actually have universities that do that,” he said.
So, how does that work? They get degrees for doing nothing? They don’t even have to prove that their apprenticeship or whatever satisfied certain objectives?
Technically, this is a university that fits in with his, um, unique approach to education. It’s just that the degree is worthless because it can’t not be worthless.
Nixon University
