(and it did have all those gaps and stuff in)... and there was me thinking there was a point to doing A levels etc.(Original post by an email i got sent)
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- 24-06-2004 15:13
anyone? *wants to buy herself a few letters after her name*
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- 24-06-2004 15:14
Its a joke, the degrees are not degress they are just a peice of paper anybody can print out on a half decent printer. Yet people are so thick to pay for these things. Some of them are fake, there was a scouser faking Liverpool, Salford and Manchester degrees and selling them for £1000 each a few years back, he got cought and had a nice prison sentance.
I am not sure what the degrees will be like on from these spammers but I would imagine it would The University of Oxford, Lucknow, India or somthing.
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- 24-06-2004 15:15
There's websites and allsorts about this type of thing around, load of cobblers though really.
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- 24-06-2004 15:16
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i also noticed a thing on the sign in page for hotmail advertsising degrees from liverpool... i guess it could have been a genuine advert for the uni tho *is intrigued*
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- 24-06-2004 15:17
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- 24-06-2004 15:18
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i also noticed a thing on the sign in page for hotmail advertsising degrees from liverpool... i guess it could have been a genuine advert for the uni tho *is intrigued*
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- 24-06-2004 15:42
I am not condoning fraud or the falsification of qualifications/titles (pretty evident really, or else I certainly wouldn't have bothered with school) but there are some people in this world who do this kind of thing. It isn't as rare as you would think. Just look at that conman by the name of Archer, Cambridge degree my foot - he worked there as a lab techie and then made up all kinds of fallacies.
In addition, I believe the whole honorary degree thing to be a complete farce. *Waits quietly for Mr Wayne Rooney Esq. to receive his honarary doctorate from Liverpool University*
I wouldn't want anything that I haven't studied for - including official state 'honours' - how much taxpayer's money is wasted through this every year? -
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- 24-06-2004 16:03
Honoury degrees are slightly different because we all know its a farse and I don't think they can put the letters after their name.
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- 24-06-2004 16:11
(Original post by lou p lou)
(and it did have all those gaps and stuff in)... and there was me thinking there was a point to doing A levels etc.and you'd have to be really quite silly to think you can buy a degree
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- 24-06-2004 16:14
My degree was about the person I have become, buying a piece of paper could not change me in that way. What was that you say, what grade did I get? Oh well, since you ask, it was a 2:1. Yes thank you, Im rather impressed too lol
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My degree was about the person I have become, buying a piece of paper could not change me in that way. What was that you say, what grade did I get? Oh well, since you ask, it was a 2:1. Yes thank you, Im rather impressed too lol -
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- 24-06-2004 16:16
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Honoury degrees are slightly different because we all know its a farse and I don't think they can put the letters after their name.
Quasi-academic awards and honorary titles/awards in general are largely the product of patronage.
I have infinitely more respect for a Doctor through academic qualification than a 'Sir' or a Commander of the Butcher's Empire. -
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Even so, those awarded with honarary doctorates can still go around calling themselves Dr. So-and-so, why should they? Quite rightly they shouldn't have an Ed.D,D.Phil, PhD, DBA etc. after their names because they have done bugger all to achieve it.
Quasi-academic awards and honorary titles/awards in general are largely the product of patronage.
I have infinitely more respect for a Doctor through academic qualification than a 'Sir' or a Commander of the Butcher's Empire. -
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- 24-06-2004 16:36
(Original post by amazingtrade)
Its a joke, the degrees are not degress they are just a peice of paper anybody can print out on a half decent printer. Yet people are so thick to pay for these things. Some of them are fake, there was a scouser faking Liverpool, Salford and Manchester degrees and selling them for £1000 each a few years back, he got cought and had a nice prison sentance.
I am not sure what the degrees will be like on from these spammers but I would imagine it would The University of Oxford, Lucknow, India or somthing.
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- 24-06-2004 17:00
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To be fair you have to achieve a lot to become a sir.
A knighthood, by definition, is an establishment title which has been slightly adapted in modern circumstances to adopt a wider meaning. Do you seriously believe that all those awarded titles (including knighthoods) in the New Year's honours list have 'achieved' the 'honour' by making an exceptional contribution to this country and her people?
Without wanting to shame certain persons who I know, if I felt duly compelled to - I could easily show up the honours system to be a shambles by referring to a few living proofs. But I feel no need to mock the honours system, as the media does it for me.
97% of honours come about as a result of patronage.
I would much rather study for a doctorate (or a similarly edifying qualification) than bootlick for a knighthood, but then that's just my personal opinion. -
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...Do you seriously believe that all those awarded titles (including knighthoods) in the New Year's honours list have 'achieved' the 'honour' by making an exceptional contribution to this country and her people?... -
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- 24-06-2004 17:17
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Excluding the bulk of celebrities who get honours, then yes. 'Normal' people who get honours must've been quite extraordinary in order to get noticed for honours; thats the point. Unfortunately the system is devalued by high-profile people who dont particularly deserve is being honoured.
Look at the honours list, scroll down it and highlight every single establishment lackey that you see on it - then you will understand my point. -
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My venom is not targeted at the hoi polloi who receive these titles - I appreciate that it is difficult for a person of parents base of stock to be awarded one.
Look at the honours list, scroll down it and highlight every single establishment lackey that you see on it - then you will understand my point.
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