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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Fudge Only If You Fly Low

Regular readers know this rule of UD's - Go ahead and buy a degree from a diploma mill, or lie on your cv about having earned legitimate degrees that you haven't earned, but fly very low.

If you fly low enough, chances are no one will notice. Millions of Americans live lives of quiet desperation with undetected fake or unearned degrees in their past.

But this blog is in part the sad chronicle of bogus grads whom fate lifts up into the light of day. Once that happens, it's merde/ventilateur time, as in this latest case, from a woman nominated to be Israel's Tourism Minister (she has now withdrawn):



[H]er curriculum vitae, which said she had a bachelor's degree from Bar Ilan University, was wrong. Nor did she have a master's degree as she had claimed.

In a statement on prime time TV, Tartman lashed out at the media accusing reporters of character assassination. She said she did study at Bar Ilan University and got good marks but her BA was from another college.

She acknowledged that her claims to a master's degree were wrong but suggested that was a minor issue because she had studied for an MA.