The US Department of Education defines a diploma mill as "an organization that awards degrees without requiring its students to meet educational standards for such degrees...

... the officers are unethical self-seekers whose qualifications are no better than their offerings." It is an even more apt description of the digital diploma mills now in the making. Quality higher education will not disappear entirely, but it will soon become the exclusive preserve of the privileged, available only to children of the rich and the powerful. For the rest of us a dismal...

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Page 13 The scholarship is guaranteed or your money back." • "You cannot get this information anywhere else." • "I just need your credit card or bank account number to hold this scholarship. Appears in 9 books from 2000-2008

Page 88 Reid described the typical diploma mill as having the following characteristics: "no classrooms," "faculties are often untrained or nonexistent," and "the officers are unethical selfseekers whose qualifications are no better than their offerings." It is an apt description of the digital diploma mills now in the making. Quality higher education will not disappear entirely, but it will soon become the exclusive preserve of the privileged, available only to children of the rich and the powerful. For... Appears in 6 books from 2000-2005

Page v an act or course of deception deliberately practiced with the view of gaining a wrong or unfair advantage; deceit; trick; an artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured. Appears in 16 books from 1833-2007

Page 13 FTC cautions students to look and listen for these tell-tale lines: "The scholarship is guaranteed or your money back." "You can't get this information anywhere else." "I just need your credit card or bank account number to hold this scholarship." "Well do all the work." "The scholarship will cost some money." "You've been selected" by a 'national foundation' to receive a scholarship — or "You're a finalist" in a contest you never entered. Appears in 8 books from 1998-2008

Page 124 - It . . . either receives fees from its so-called students on the basis of fraudulent misrepresentations, or it makes it possible for the recipients of its degrees to perpetrate a fraud on the public. Appears in 6 books from 1959-2007

Page 68 Match your position with a legal degree and transcripts. As you know experience is still the best teacher. But Degrees open doors." But it was this enticing little item in The Atlantic that set my saliva glands to running: Britain's largest... Appears in 5 books from 2001-2004

Page 124 - it is an organization that awards degrees without requiring its students to meet educational standards for such degrees established and traditionally followed by reputable educational institutions. Appears in 6 books from 1959-2007

Page 13 Some unscrupulous companies guarantee that they can get scholarships on behalf of students or award them "scholarships" in exchange for an advance fee. Most offer a "money back guarantee" — but attach conditions that make it impossible to get the refund. Others provide nothing for the student's advance fee — not even a list of potential sources; still others tell students they've been selected as "finalists" for awards that require an up-front fee. Appears in 3 books from 1998-2001

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