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Engineering Profession Must Adapt to Maintain Future Leadership

The report recommends ways to improve engineers’ training and prepare them for the complex technical, social and ethical questions raised by emerging technologies. Press Release Full Report

Diploma mill crackdown: Officials vow end to feds’ use of suspect degrees

To receive a doctorate from ba: we sure about this?yesHamilton, which is not an accredited school, requires of its doctoral candidates, not years of research resulting in a thorough thesis, but a four-page paper, a five-hour correspondence course on business ethics — and $3,600.Read the Full Story

OPM [Office of Personnel Management] Associate Director Tells Senate Committee that Diploma Mill Degrees Have No Place in Federal Government Decisions on Hiring, Promoting ||OPM Director Kay Coles James Issues Strong Message on Bogus Degrees

Washington, D.C. — A senior official at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management yesterday told a Senate panel that degrees from non-accredited schools must never be used to base hiring or promotion decisions on in the federal government, and that the agency is using seminars and other substantive efforts to train federal managers and HR […]

Apogee Interactive Inc. Names Randy Edwards Director of eLearning

Edwards will oversee expansion of the company’s Internet-based curriculum and learning management system to service its clients including Southern Company, Florida Power & Light, Exelon, Georgia Electric Membership Corp., the American Public Power Association and many others.Read the Full Story

Bill Aims To Scale Back Controversial Copyright Act

Consumer groups made their push Wednesday to get Congress to amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to permit users to make personal copies of DVDs and CDs for limited purposes. But Hollywood studios and the music industry said doing so would lead to more piracy and lost sales.Read the Full Story

Fake college degrees warning

Britain College of Management and Science describes itself on its website as “the historical college in the city of London”. Read the Full Story

DIPLOMA MILLS: Federal Employees Have Obtained Degrees from Diploma Mills and Other Unaccredited Schools, Some at Government Expense

As you requested, we conducted an investigation to determine whether the federal government has paid for degrees from diploma mills and other unaccredited postsecondary schools. Section 4107 of title 5, U. S. Code, only permits the federal government to pay for the cost of academic degree training provided by a college or university that is […]

Lawmakers fear ‘dot-kids’ is a ‘dot-bomb’

After nearly a year of operation, only 13 web sites exist on the dot-kids domain, which was created by the Dot-Kids Implementation and Efficiency Act of 2002.Read the Full Story

UUM [Universiti Utara Malaysia] privatises distance learning

UUM vice-chancellor Kol Prof Datuk Dr Ahmad Fawzi Mohd Basri said Pace would be made an education division in one of Uniutama Management Holding Sdn Bhd’s (UMHSB) subsidiary. Read the Full Story

BSU [Ball State University] trustees approve tuition hike

On Friday, the school’s board of trustees approved a four-percent tuition hike for all in-state students.Read the Full Story