Alarm over bogus degrees
AUSTRALIA needs to be more vigilant against fake degrees following reports of “an exponential rise” in fraud in our No.2 student market, India.”I think it really means increased due diligence in background screening [of would-be postgraduate students],” higher education consultant George Brown said.
His paper, Degrees of Doubt: Legitimate, Real and Fake Qualifications in a Global Market, appears in the latest Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management. Read More