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Tue 6 Jul, 2010 01:06 am
Paper = a material made of cellulose pulp derived mainly from wood or rags or certain grasses?
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Exposed: scandal of the bogus degrees
•By John Walshe and Tom Lyons
Monday November 14 2005
THREE bogus Irish 'universities' are selling worthless degrees and are seriously damaging the image of our education system, the Irish Independent can reveal.
The degrees are not recognised by either the Irish or British governments.
Every year students in Malaysia, India, China, Sri Lanka, Africa and elsewhere are paying substantial fees for 'Mickey Mouse' courses and degrees which are not worth the paper they are written on.
And they are doing enormous damage to Ireland's educational reputation.
The damage being done to the system was confirmed by Education International. This is the body charged with promoting Irish education abroad.
It means they're worthless. Paper costs something, but not very much. A sheet of paper costs less than a penny. The degree is worth less than that, because the schools aren't real schools and no official body, like a school accrediting group, recognizes them or the degrees they supposedly award.
It's an idion.
Something "not worth the paper it's written on" is worthless.
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