Re: Outsourcing developer to India and China - As an Oracle developer I am miffed

On 7 Oct 2003 07:50:22 -0700, pharfromhome_at_hotmail.com (Geomancer) wrote:

>I wonder if many of these foreign workers "play fair", especially with
>regard to qualifications.
>
>For example, there are a huge number of "programs" that offer instant,
>verifiable College Degrees for Indian and Chinese nationals. These
>are designed specifically to allow foreign IT staff to get opast the
>HR requirements for a College Degree.
>
>Here is one such school:
>
>http://www.belforduniversity.org/university/online_registrationform.asp?dlcode=2
>
>Here you select your Masters Degree, your graduation date, and you
>even get to choose your GPA.
>
>I have seen numerous foreign natinals with such "education", and for
>those of us who suffered for six-years for a real Masters, it's really
>disgusting.

Isn't it true you can buy almost *any* US university degree from fraudulent *US* sources on the Internet? Do you consider it 'fair' to sell someone a worthless piece of paper?

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA