Talk:Canterbury University of the Seychelles

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Watchers of this article should be aware of user special:contributions/Dairence who posted the same text. -- RHaworth 11:55, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

And the following:

--Tagishsimon (talk) 12:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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In answer to your question, I have researched this school for a client, as I am a licensed investigator in New Jersey.In seeing your thread, I thought I would reply. After alleviating the Universities mentioned here, I continued my search. I must admit it wasn't easy. Time consuming and phone inquiries.
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Yes, the Canterbury University in question was initially a business school founded in England in 1974 called "The Canterbury College of Business Studies." It offered correspondence courses as a private degree granting body. Since then, the laws have changed in England in 1988 regarding British Private Degree Granting Bodies. The name changed to Canterbury University, but the school was then registered in the Republic of Seychelles (islands in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar) The school is compliant with the Seychelles legislation. For a time, Canterbury maintained a Graduates Services office at 193 Market St. Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 1HF England.
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They are no longer there. The school was accredited by the United Congress of Colleges, based in Ireland. The reason you were unable to locate them is because they have since vanished from the "radar screen."
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As from accounts I have obtained, Canterbury University issued degrees based on professional/ experiential learning and prior study, and postal degree programs and provided acceptable in Asia and some other countries.
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Hope this gives you some insight on the school. I must add that these university degrees are legit and bonefide and not from a diploma mill as students have at least put in the course work and taken the all important exams.
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removed here by --Tagishsimon (talk) 10:59, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

Note that the investigator from New Jersey posts from a British Telecom-assigned IP address in London. --Dynaflow babble 13:44, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
The PI's conclusions are not merited by the evidence. How do we get from "Canterbury University issued degrees based on professional/ experiential learning and prior study" to "I must add that these university degrees are legit and bonefide"? The first leads more realistically to Diploma Mill than Legitimate. --Tagishsimon (talk) 13:55, 16 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Dr. Kirk's discussion of the article, moved from the article text

Yes, the Canterbury University in question was initially a business school founded in England in 1974 called "The Canterbury College of Business Studies." It offered correspondence courses as a private degree granting body. Since then, the laws have changed in England in 1988 regarding British Private Degree Granting Bodies. The name changed to Canterbury University, but the school was then registered in the Republic of Seychelles (islands in the Indian Ocean north of Madagascar) The school is compliant with the Seychelles legislation. For a time, Canterbury maintained a Graduates Services office at 193 Market St. Hyde, Cheshire, SK14 1HF England.

They are no longer there. The school was accredited by the United Congress of Colleges, based in Ireland. The reason you were unable to locate them is because they have since vanished from the "radar screen."

As from accounts I have obtained, Canterbury University issued degrees based on professional/ experiential learning and prior study, acceptable in all of Asia, Africa and most other countries.

Hope this gives you some insight on the school, they still provided correspondent courses and students were tested and examined via postal arrangements. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Kirk (talk • contribs)

Same theme as when this person claimed to be a PI, except for subtle wording changes ... now the degrees are valid in "all of Asia, Africa and most other countries" rather than "acceptable in Asia and some other countries". So that's progress, but really, we are still deep in diploma mill territory, are we not? --Tagishsimon (talk) 14:53, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
I'd say we're deep in the second act of an epic, bathos-filled puppet show. It is, however, fast losing (most of) its amusing qualities. --Dynaflow babble 18:30, 18 April 2008 (UTC)