Big ol’ scandal in a law school in the Czech Republic, where they’ve been selling degrees left and right.
Police began investigating the law faculty at Plzeň’s University of West Bohemia (Západočeská univerzita), which is suspected of running a bogus academic degree racket and of bestowing diplomas upon many prominent local politicians, who didn’t actually study for their degrees…
“I don’t remember who taught me law, who advised me on my diploma thesis or who authored the opponent’s opinion. And I’ve lost my transcripts,” Chomutov mayor… Ivana Řápková …, who graduated from Plzeň’s law school in 2005 and whose master’s thesis is missing from the school library, told reporters.
UD lives for quotations like that one, from Mayor Rapkova. It’s very close to perfect.
Perfect would be And my dog is dead. But it’s almost perfect.
The problem at the West Bohemian University’s (ZCU) Faculty of Law can be solved neither by its new acting dean Jiri Pospisil nor the accreditation commission for universities…
The problem is much broader as it stems from… the long-lasting and persisting love of academic titles by Czechs, as a result of which clumsy, picturesque abbreviations (for academic titles), unparalleled elsewhere in the world, mushroomed in the country in the communist period and have survived since…
October 23rd, 2009 at 8:39AM
Or: "How much more bohemian could I possibly be?" she added.
October 23rd, 2009 at 9:24AM
Great minds think alike, Ani. I played and played with bohemian stuff before going with Kundera instead…
October 23rd, 2009 at 12:16PM
Or: My dog died after he ate my thesis.