|
|
| |
|
| |
 |
Search /
Validate / Verify
College Degrees and other Educational Qualifications |
 |
| |
|
| |
Validation or Verification of College Degrees and
other educational qualifications is regularly used by
headhunters, employers, and other verifiers. This report
verifies educational qualifications* and degrees of any person.
This Information is generally verified through the schools or
universities. If you do not know an individual's educational
qualification, you can search those possible qualifications
through this search. Results generally include the type of
degree or degrees and upon availability the year, degree was awarded. You
can also find out if the degrees are genuine or fake or have
been awarded through diploma mills. For USA education searches
can be run by state or nationwide and returns possible colleges
or universities attended or degrees such as Bachelors,
Masters, Doctorates, MD, MBA, MS, BS, BA, MA, JD, Phd etc. Education search
for high school diploma's and associate degrees is optional and
available as a
custom search. Search
publicly
available resources for USA, Canada,
UK, China, India, Australia, South Korea, Malaysia, Phillipines,
Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Mexico, Macau and many other
countires for education verifications.
Click here for education and college
degree verifications outside the USA. |
| |
|
| |
|
Search /
Check High School Records |
|
| |
This search returns Name and location of High School attended by
any individual from their Name and last
known address. This is a nationwide search that searches all states in the USA. |
| |
|
| |
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The way to ensure if degrees are genuine and not awarded by diploma mills is to check if the
school is accredited by an agency acknowledged by the Council
for Higher Education Accreditation.
What does accreditation mean? Accreditation is an academic
recognition and approval granted to an educational institution
or program that meets or exceeds established standards of
educational quality. Accreditation helps ensure the quality of
an institution or program. If you need to transfer credits to an
accredited school, you're not likely to get non-accredited
coursework recognized and non-accredited degrees are not
acceptable to most employers. It is also important to know
who has accredited the school. Many accreditations have no
meaning unless they are recognized by the Council for Higher
Education Accreditation (CHEA), a private, nonprofit national
organization, and the United States Department of Education (USDE).
Each organization reviews the quality and effectiveness of
accrediting bodies, recognizing many of the same ones, but not
all. USDE recognition is required for institutions that seek
eligibility for federal student financial aid, and CHEA
recognition confers academic legitimacy. Only accredited
universities and programs are eligible for federal--and
sometimes state--student financial aid. CHEA and USDE also
recognize these six regional accrediting associations, each
responsible for a specific geographic area -- Middle States
Association of Colleges and Schools -- New England Association
of Schools and Colleges -- North Central Association of Colleges
and Schools -- Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities
-- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools -- Western
Association of Schools and Colleges. In addition the following
national accrediting associations are also recognized: --
Accrediting Association of Bible College -- Accrediting
Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council --
Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools --
Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools --
Association of Theological Schools in the United States and
Canada -- Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and
Schools Accreditation Commission |
| |
|
| |
A recent survey by the New York
Times Job Market research team found that 89 percent of job
seekers exaggerate on their resumes. Typical resume
airbrushing tactics include exaggerating job responsibilities,
falsifying employment dates, or covering up the reasons for
leaving a former employer. According to Nolo.com, a Web site
designed to help people handle everyday legal matters, 9 percent
of job seekers falsely claimed they had a higher degree, listed
false employers, or identified jobs that didn't exist. Eleven
percent misrepresented why they left a former employer, and
nearly 33 percent listed employment dates that were off by more
than 3 months.
"At the executive level, inflating responsibilities and
falsifying degrees are two common resume lies," said Michael
Kessler, an investigative consultant at international corporate
investigation firm Kessler International. At lower levels, he
said, changing work dates to fill gaps of unemployment and
omitting criminal histories are more common.
|
| |
News & Comments:
In February 2006, Electronics retailer RadioShack Corp. said
that its president and chief executive, David Edmondson resigned
during an investigation into credentials listed on his resume.
Edmondson originally said he had received a Bachelor of Science
degree and then said he believes, but cannot document, that
he received a ThG diploma, awarded for completing a three-year
degree in theology. Executive Chairman
Leonard Roberts said in a conference call that at the time of
Edmondson's first hiring in 1994, RadioShack was not in the
practice of verifying academic credentials. He stressed that the
company now conducts more stringent background checks.Veritas removed its former CFO
because he lied on his resume, claiming a Stanford MBA he
doesn't have. Lonchar is the most recent in a long list of
high-profile resume "padders." George O'Leary, hired as head
coach for the Notre Dame football team in 2001, got the ax when
it was discovered he never played football for his alma mater,
the University of New Hampshire -- though his resume said he
had. He later confessed his master's degree was also a sham.
Ouch. Resume padding, of course, isn't just limited to bogus
degrees. |
| |
The business school of the University of California at Berkeley
is running background checks on prospective students and
rejecting some for lying on their applications:
Of 100 students who have qualified for admittance to the
prestigious Haas School of Business, five were rejected last
month after staff found they had made false claims on their
applications, Wharton business school at the University of
Pennsylvania, has also began
requiring applicants to pay a $35 fee to have an outside firm
verify their applications. "We wanted to warn the market, "Don't apply to us if you plan
to fudge your application," said Rosemaria Martinelli, director
of MBA admissions and financial aid. "What I hope to do through all this is to show that integrity
is the most important thing," she said. Woo, the Gillen
Dean of the Mendoza College of Business at the University of
Notre Dame, thinks running a check is probably a good idea in
today's business climate. |
| |
Dartmouth athletic director resigns due to Fake Masters Degree.
"Charles Harris, Dartmouth's new athletic director,
resigned abruptly after questions were raised about his resume.
Harris stepped down Monday. Dartmouth had scheduled to
officially introduce him Tuesday as the school's new Athletic
Director.
*Education search will only search for college or university
degrees. |
| |
|
|
|
