Yes. I can’t remember the course number, but it was pretty much that.
My interests included sensing and modeling signals (especially biological signals) that evolve nonlinearly.
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Sounds like those meddling kids have their next investigation.
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What next? Journalists find out that the new POTUS isn’t really a successful businessman?
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Yeah the Corllins website looks legit if you only glance at the home page. If you do more than glance at it, though, it quickly gets pretty fishy.
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The University of Cumbria is ranked 121st out of 127. Cambridge might just have the higher reputation even in something like forestry.
(Not that the University of Cumbria Penrith campus is the only UK university or college that specialises in forestry, It’s just the first one that comes to mind. I remember going there with my school back when it was Newton Rigg College)
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Another reason not to mess with that kind of fake degree. Not only do you have to worry about your own boss finding out, you have to worry about EVERYONE’s boss finding out and it becoming a story on the internet, alerting your boss to your scheme. Most jobs I’ve had didn’t care about your education if you could do the job, but lying or faking it would still get you fired.
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No - the journalists have not yet grokked that. Set some schoolkids on to it, stat!
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Brilliant, simply brilliant.
But let’s see how long that student newspaper survives now. Or indeed the students…might be retribution for making people on high look foolish.
I expect to see the district implement a stringent process requiring a “responsible” faculty member or admin official to approve future stories. I believe that has happened elsewhere when the students get uppity and start thinking that publishing truth is acceptable to people in power.
How is Theoretical Physics not vocational? What else would you study to become a theoretical physicist?
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A friend was regaling me over drinks that he wanted to cancel an interview with a candidate who had made it past the phone screen but upon his (not HR’s) googlingof the guy found several red flags. HR freaked out telling him he wasn’t authorized to be looking at candidates like that (outside of LinkedIn - since we all know how accurate that is) so he had to bring the guy in, interview him and fortunately had enough valid technical reasons to pass on him.
There be some weird reasoning going on out there.
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@beschizza did you find this because your Pittsburgh Google Alert accidentally gave you a story from Kansas? 
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One of those kids should go on to write a book about the intrepid corporate reporter who’s currently doing that. You know, fiction!
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This ends with you being digitally tarred-and-feathered as a sock puppet if I’ve read French revolutionary literature.
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I see what you did here. What is Mike Pence’s side of the story?
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They’re so excellent they crammed 32 years of excellence into only 30 calendar years
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Fake degrees which “… have been authenticated by the US government.” The US government. Fake stuff. Probably authenticated by Trump or one of his stooges.
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