Deceptive Foreign Credential Evaluation Services

Authors

  • George Gollin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2013.72.6103

Keywords:

Academic Quality, Assessment and Accreditation, foreign credential evaluators, degree mill, diploma mill, fraud, corruption

Abstract

Foreign credential evaluation services play an increasingly important role in facilitating the movement of university students and graduates across national borders. But this unregulated sector of higher education is replete with unscrupulous agencies that provide deceptive evaluations for the customers of degree mills.

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Published

2013-03-17

How to Cite

Gollin, G. (2013). Deceptive Foreign Credential Evaluation Services. International Higher Education, (72), 9–10. https://doi.org/10.6017/ihe.2013.72.6103

Issue

No. 72: Summer 2013

Section

Internationalization: Trends and Critiques

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