Key EDS Witness Bought Internet Degree

An anonymous reader writes "EDS's key witness during the firm's court case against BSkyB was shown to have bought his degree online – but still managed to get a worse mark than a dog. Joe Galloway said he had a degree from Concordia College in the US Virgin Islands and gave detailed evidence on how he took plane journeys between the islands and attended a college there. But while questioning Galloway in court, Mark Howard QC managed to obtain exactly the same degree as Galloway from Concordia College for his dog 'Lulu' with one key difference – the dog got a higher mark."

Why is this tagged "Australia"?

[mjwx]

The court case is appearing before the British high court.

BSkyB and EDS are British firms, the collage in question is in the US Virgin Islands. This was reported by itweek.co.uk, itnews.com.au just copied the article so that doesn't qualify as an excuse.

Re:Does it matter?

[LKM]

Presumably, part of the idea is to discourage others from doing the same thing. If you have a fake diploma, chances are you know less about the topic than you say you do, so it's something that should be discouraged.

Wrong, wrong and wrong

[Kupfernigk]

There is no British High Court: Scotland has a separate system of justice and it is the High Court of England and Wales. BSkyB is ultimately owned by News International, the multinational creation of Rupert Murdoch, born Australian but now a US citizen of convenience, and is British only in appearance. EDS is a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard, a US multinational. I will forgive you collage, because calling it a college would clearly be exaggeration.

Re:Bad for Internet PR

[Another, completely]

If you're looking for the definition of an eigenvector, you can probably trust what you find. Otherwise, it's like fixing a slow watch by never winding it: instead of being always wrong, it's now exactly correct twice every day.

Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree

[Anonymous Coward]

Pfft. I have a degree from Oxford (albeit only one). Still in touch with friends from that time, but in the 20 years since I've never used any "connections" for any "networking".

Want a degree

[Dan541]

Here you go: http://thunderwoodcollege.com/ [thunderwoodcollege.com]

Re:I guess it really is true

[Adelbert]

This isn't the first time a dog has managed to wangle its way to a degree.

Go to this [wikipedia.org] page for one of the funniest articles on Wikipedia. Basically, there are a lot of disreputable correspondence courses out there.

Re:Diploma mills prove the worthlessness of degree

[WarlockD]

Case in point: George W. Bush graduated from Yale. Doubt the BA in Arts helped more than the connections to become president.