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At at top 10 school in the UK: masters and even doctorates are being essentially sold to foreign students. The standards are incredibly low (students getting de
by arpinum 5y ago
At at top 10 school in the UK: masters and even doctorates are being essentially sold to foreign students. The standards are incredibly low (students getting degrees without functional use of English), but the revenue to the university is essential.
There is a business risk if schools try to maintain standards (students have paid for degrees, not learning), but the cumulative effect is that I completely ignore graduate degrees when hiring.
- BlissWaves 5y agoIn engineering?
- arpinum 5y agoBusiness school
- markus_zhang 5y agoThis reminds me an episode of Yes Minister but I didn't expect it to go down that fast. Is it the same for STEM as well?
- arpinum 5y agoI don’t know about the STEM fields, this is from the business school, which is a cash cow funding other programmes.