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Originally Posted by Yev  If you believe this is the meaning of a degree, well then I expect you will believe anything. Hell, you might even believe Aaron's "virtual photon flux of the quantum mechanical vacuum".
As a person who spent 8 years studying at accredited universities I know what a degree is. The reason institutions want to hire people with PhD's (and no, I don't have one) is not for what they learnt directly during their studies. The reason they want people with PhDs is because those are the people who have demonstrated that they have the ability and perseverance to do the work and to understand it well enough to defend their theses in front of their peers. I have worked with a few people who had phoney degrees, and every one of them displayed the same lack of moral fibre suspected by One.
If you think you can short circuit this process and buy a PhD then I would be suspicious of everything you do. In fact, based on all your other rantings I am not surprised that you are the sort of person who would buy a degree. Do you sell them too? |
Wow personal attacks! Guess you have high moral fiber too.
(sorry ether, last post)
For info, It wasn't a PHD just a Bachelor Degree. I had to sit an exam for it, submit several assignments and examples of my work. Provide proof of work history and references, who were contacted, confirming my experience in the industry. So it wasn't just handed out for cash.
As I said above I worked with PHD'd people and found them virtually clueless in a real world situation. I guess we both hung out with the wrong people.
I put my approval on results and performance and not on a piece of paper that anyone who can just stick it out can get.
FYI I left uni originally because I was bored. I was acing all my classes but learning nothing usefull. Everything they taught us was years out of date, and not used in the real world. So I stopped -studying- at a university and started -working- at one.
