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Jared
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 Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: Online degrees recognized? |
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Hey all. I'm considering taking an online degree program and I've been somewhat confused of whether or not they'll be accepted. For instance, I've been told that Taiwan doesn't recognize online degrees. Now is the same exactly true for Korea and Japan? Or is Taiwan the only country that doesn't recognize online degrees? Also, does anyone have any experience with University of Phoenix? Just thought I'd ask. Thanks.
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Kram
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Gordon
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This has been done to death here. They are usually called distance degrees and they look and are often identical to on campus degrees. Taiwan (and sometimes Saudi Arabia) is the only country that does not recognize distance degrees.
Do a search and you will find everything you need to know and then some. |
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Jared
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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The Degree awarded is the same as the one completed by students who attend campus
So unless I mentioned to some Korean white-slave trader that the degree was distance they wouldn't know....
I think using the term "online" can have negative connotations.
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Well okay. So some degree certificates look exactly the same as those who do studies on campus. Does this mean someone could easily lie and say "Oh yes I did mine on campus"? And from what I understand, you'd have to lie on your resume a bit. For example, I spent a year in China. I have no degree. For arguments sake, if I just completed an online degree, I'd probably have to say on my resume "I spent 3 1/2 years at this university on campus" and take my passport, put it in the wash, destroy it, get a new passport, so that the TECO center or Korean Embassy or my employer doesn't wonder how I could've been in China and on campus at a North American University at the same time.
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Kram
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Jared
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Kram wrote: |
I don't need to lie about my qualifications. I�m also way past caring what others think. |
That's fair.
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I'm not sure where you're from, but if you completed your education while at home, you would avoid the problem of explaining how you received an undergraduate degree while working overseas. Check with the uni regarding credit for your diploma.
As for China, a degree is preferred and you are correct when you mentioned they accepted virtually anything (although that is changing). I had more work than I could handle with just a TESOL cert... |
Yeah. Normally if I did complete a degree while working in China, I'd have to get a new passport and lie on my resume and say that I did my studies on campus and make up a bunch of stuff. And for china, yeah they'll probably enforce certain laws soon. However if they do, they will have an extremem shortage of teachers. Probably just like Taiwan, they'll have to say "Well okay if you have a 2 year diploma with TESOL, we'll accept that". But again, we'll have to wait and see what happens. Hey what's the website to that australian University you were talking about Kram? |
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Serious_Fun
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| Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 5:36 am Post subject: Re: distance learning recognized? |
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| Jared wrote: |
| Also, does anyone have any experience with University of Phoenix? |
Perhaps you have already discovered this in the course of your research, but the "University  of Phoenix" has a terrible reputation.
here is just one of many hits from a quick internet search:
http://uopsucks.com/home.html |
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Serious_Fun
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| Jared wrote: |
| One thing I had went through before is that when a guy I knew contacted someone in Taiwan with connections to the government and checked to see if Athabasca University was recognized by the government, Taiwans' government apparently does recognize Athabasca. Even though they have distance education as well as on campus. I sometimes wonder if the Taiwan government only recognizes "certain" universities which do the option of distance studying? |
 ...errr...Jared...perhaps an English course would be in order if and when you begin your university programme. Please read each one of your fantastic example sentences aloud.  |
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Jared
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Serious_Fun wrote: |
| ...errr...Jared...perhaps an English course would be in order if and when you begin your university programme. Please read each one of your fantastic example sentences aloud. |
Okay okay. Sleepless nights affect speech. I know a guy who has connections to the TW government. He checked to see if Athabasca University was recognized by TW's government. TW's government recognizes Athabasca even though Athabasca has a distance education program. By the way, I did find that Phoenix University has a bad reputation.  University of Phoenix is one University I will stay away from. Is there anyone here that has actually been successfull with an online degree program and actually got into Taiwan? |
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