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Diploma Mill Police >
Degree Mills, What They Are and How To Avoid Them
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By Rachel Wang
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Make sure your GED is the real deal, take it in person.
A diploma mill is a online high school or university that sells worthless degrees. While it can be tricky identifying these fake schools, it isn’t impossible (check out the Top 10 Signs of a Diploma Mill). Once you know a few key facts, you can easily determine if that online GED program you’ve been exploring is real or a dangerous scam.
Read on for tips on how to make sure you're not getting a fake GED online.
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Diploma Mill Police >
Fake Diploma News
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By Rachel Wang
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A network of diploma mills operating under the brand name of Belford suffered a financial blow after a federal court in Michigan mandated a $22.7 million payout to duped students who bought the group's fake GED diplomas and college degrees. Belford High School and Belford University— both owned by Pakistani businessman Salem Kureshi— lost a federal class-action lawsuit for selling scam credentials to students. Now the Belford gorup of schools must make financial amends to their duped alumni in what authorities have ruled a degree mill scam involving several Internet domains, all operating under the Belford tagline.
On Aug. 31, 2012, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith ordered Kureshi and his co-defendants to pay $22.7 million in a lawsuit settlement to Belford students in compensation for selling unaccredited diplomas and degrees. The Belford scam encompassed 30,500 plaintiffs living in the U.S. who purchased a fake diploma from Belford High School or Belford University from 2003 to 2009, at the start of the lawsuit.
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Online Education Jobs >
Learn to Teach Online
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By Gail Overstreet
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photo credit: Helico (flickr)  If you're thinking of becoming an online teacher, you'd better be good at juggling tasks.
Becoming an online teacher must be much easier than managing a traditional classroom, right?
You may be surprised.
In my experience, many new online instructors are unprepared for the amount of work involved in becoming an online teacher. Online faculty must be ready to face many issues and all manner of student complaints. Among them: poor college readiness; students' personal crises; and the complex management of the online classroom process. Knowing how to handle all these issues, and many more, is critical to learning how to effectively manage an online classroom while staying sane!
Read on for a trained-in-the-trenches view from an experienced online teacher.
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Expert Advice >
Careers
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By Lorna Collier
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Earn an online bachelor's degree in business and you’ll never have to worry about shuffling along in the unemployment line.
Well, maybe.  Adding a concentration in IT or finance is a great way to differentiate yourself from more generic, "vanilla" business degrees.
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Career counselors have always plugged "vanilla" business degrees as safe investments. But surveys say a generic business bachelor's is not the way to get the best business jobs and starting salaries. The best business jobs—and salaries—go to professionals who specialize in one of three majors: accounting, finance or IT and information systems. Earn an online bachelor's degree in business with one of these three concentrations and watch your career prospects—and salary level—soar.
“People in this kind of job market have their eyes open to skill sets, not just theoretical skills, but accounting, software ... things that have high value [to potential employers],” says Michael Jaeger, dean of the colleges of business and education at Eastern Oregon University. Jaeger oversees the online bachelor's degree in business program at EOU.
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Hot Careers >
Healthcare & Nursing
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By Get Educated Consumer Reporting Team
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 More than one type of online healthcare degree can qualify you for a high-powered management career in the medical field. If your goal is to launch or accelerate a career in the lucrative health sector, you'll want to carefully compare at least three different nursing and healthcare master's degrees: - Master's in Healthcare Administration (MHA)
- Master's of Business Administration in Healthcare (MBA)
- Master's in Public Health Administration (MPH)
Get Educated interviewed healthcare students and career advisers to ferret out which of these three types of healthcare degrees might be the best for any rising executive in the medical sector. |
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