Master Cheaters Pay The Price

MayorBob.

Posted to Etcetera on Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 09:40:52 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

If you're at all serious about getting an MBA worth the paper it's printed on, you're going to have to take the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT), hoping to score high enough that a highly ranked business school will accept you.  Between 210,000 and 220,000 wannabe MBAs take the exam annually.  Because so much potential money and power hinges on the GMAT, the General Management Admission Council (GMAC), the test's administrator, is serious about everything being on the up and up.  Which is why, when GMAC announced this past June that as many as 6,000 GMAT takers were under scrutiny, many current and hopeful MBA students got very nervous.  The probe is over and close to 5,900 GMAT takers can breathe a sigh of relief - the same cannot be said for 84 who were nailed as a result of the probe.

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If Ignorance is Bliss, Why Aren't More People Happy?

skeeter1.

Posted to Etcetera on Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 06:44:43 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

There's been plenty of discussion about the topic in the past, but maybe it's worth reexamining.  

There's plenty to suggest that the dumbing-down of Americans is showing no signs of letting up.  My grandparents (turn of the last century) were plenty smart with 8th-grade educations, and my parents (1920s) did pretty well with high school diplomas.

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Academic Freedom... It's just been revoked.

pO157.

Posted to Etcetera on Mon Feb 18, 2008 at 12:08:05 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

As the community of Northern Illinois University copes with the aftermath of a recent shooting which left half a dozen dead, college administrators, students, police and government contractors angling for revenue all begin the process of making our university campuses "safer."

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Honoris Causa Be Causin' Some Debate.

pO157.

Posted to Etcetera on Thu Jul 26, 2007 at 08:53:07 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

The practice of institutions of higher learning passing out honorary doctorates at commencement started in the late 1470s. Since then, it has sparked debate on whether the unearned degrees cheapen the hard work of university students.

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