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TrekleaderTim
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 Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 7:10 pm Post subject: AEON degree requirements |
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I have completed a TESOL course at a very good institue in San Francisco and would like to go to Japan to teach. I do not hold a BA although I've got credits from a CC way back when. The Director of this institue suggested "off the record" that I obtain a "life experience" degree after hearing about some of the things I have done in my life. I'm 41 and have been around (working in Europe) and a lot of my experience can be considered educational. I'm looking to apply with AEON and am wondering if they will accept this type of degree from an accredited "mill".
Any input from somebody in the know would be great. |
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PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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Location: Western Japan
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| Posted: Mon Mar 28, 2005 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: AEON degree requirements |
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| TrekleaderTim wrote: |
I have completed a TESOL course at a very good institue in San Francisco and would like to go to Japan to teach. I do not hold a BA although I've got credits from a CC way back when. The Director of this institue suggested "off the record" that I obtain a "life experience" degree after hearing about some of the things I have done in my life. I'm 41 and have been around (working in Europe) and a lot of my experience can be considered educational. I'm looking to apply with AEON and am wondering if they will accept this type of degree from an accredited "mill".
Any input from somebody in the know would be great. |
Diploma mill degrees are not accreditted or recognised but worthless pieces of paper sold over the Internet.
http://scottsommers.blogs.com/taiwanweblog/degree_accreditation/index.html
Distance learning degrees are acceptable as long as the degree comes from a recognised and acccreditted university. Several of us here are doing accreditted distance degrees from overseas while living and working in Japan.
http://www.teachinginjapan.com/continuinged.html
It is not AEON that accepts the degree for your visa but Japanese immigration, and for visa purposes a diploma mill degree done over the Internet is a categorical NO. Dont even even waste your time with "life experience" diploma mill degrees. A real degree will require that you either spend time on campus, or complete a body of work that is supervised, and the institution is officially recognised as a bona-fide university and its credits accepted by other universities.
I heard of one person who spent $US 14,000 and 3 years on a diploma mill degree (Rocheville university) and then found out his degree was not worth the paper it was written on. Totally worthless. |
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