The Diploma Mill and modern technology

Abstract

Every technological advance has its dark side. The aeroplane has made world travel possible for the masses — and thousands have died in horrific crashes. We have grown utterly dependent on the automobile — but the fumes from its exhaust pollute the air we breathe. The computer has revolutionised the way we do business — and that includes, alas, the business of running the fraudulent colleges and universities that are known as diploma mills. Indeed operators of the world's less‐than‐wonderful educational institutions have eagerly seized upon all that the modern world of high technology and industry has to offer, the better to make their worthless certificates available to more and more unsuspecting victims worldwide.

Citation

Bear, J. (1986), "The Diploma Mill and modern technology", Education + Training, Vol. 28 No. 4, pp. 122-123. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb017261