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Unaccredited, Even Fake, Colleges In India Add To Education Crisis
April 01, 2012 - After studying for two years to be a teacher, Anam Naqvi found out the degree her school offers is worthless. Now, instead of attending classes and finishing a mandatory internship, she and her classmates protest every day outside the gate to their university in the northern city of Aligarh. It is a story being replayed across many Indian cities. Poorly regulated, unaccredited and often entirely fake colleges have sprung up as demand for higher education accelerates, driven by rising aspirations and a bulging population of young people. "New colleges are mushrooming everywhere, but many are flouting norms," said Nilofer Kazmi, director of the government's regulatory commission for higher education. "Many are co...
Straightline International Represents Ontario, Quebec Criminal Record Searches
April 01, 2012 - Straightline International gets criminal records in Ontario and Quebec. Since the early part of this decade, Straightline International has bee...
Getting Customers to Pay -- Around the World
March 01, 2012 - "I was in the back of my Mitsubishi truck, in Dubai, when it hit me: We might never get paid for this job. Here's what I should have done...
Forcing Teen To Drop Virtual Objects In Online Game Was Real-World Theft
March 01, 2012 - The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that forcing a 13-year-old boy to relinquish a virtual mask and amulet in an online game amounted to real-world t...
Aussies Do The Darndest Things
March 01, 2012 - Australian police and prison officials are investigating claims two inmates are secretly breaking out of prison, committing crimes - and then break...
Prison Population Getting Older
March 01, 2012 - Australia's prisons are filing up with older criminals, overloading prison authorities with the same age-related health problems facing the com...
Drug Test Work Cheats Using Bleach
March 01, 2012 - Workers are using bleach in a bid to beat drug tests at Bay of Plenty businesses. Latest figures from the New Zealand Drug Detection Agency rev...
Straightline International Welcomes New Staff Member
March 01, 2012 - "Straightline International announces the hiring of a new employee, Jihong Wang, to their Saipan staff. Jihong Wang's duties will...
Virgin Airlines Requires Applicants To Pay For Background Check
March 01, 2012 - Virgin Atlantic is forcing hundreds of new staff each year to pay for their own criminal record checks after referring them to an employment screen...
Who's Pulling Your Leg About Criminal Record Checks In India?
March 01, 2012 - by Steven Brownstein Now I know I haven't been around long enough to have 'heard them all.' I used to think that having thousan...
Your employees, executivbes, or clients might be at risk!
March 01, 2012 - Many pre-employment screening companies try to save a few dollars per criminal record search by taking the cheapest (and sometimes) the least favor...
Convictions Remain On German Certificates About 5 Years
March 01, 2012 - The length of the period before the expiration of which a conviction will no longer be included in the certificate differ. It is - three ye...
Quebec Bill Subverts Open-Court Pronciple
February 01, 2012 - Quebec Justice Minister Jean-Marc Fournier has tabled a bill to enact a new Code of Civil Procedure, the code containing the rules of procedure for...
Kill Them All
February 01, 2012 - China has executed 12 people in a single day, including a man who bombed a local tax office. The official Xinhua News Agency says Liu Zhuiheng...
Canadian Government's Online Information Access Plan Falls Short
February 01, 2012 - If you want to know about the steps the department of Citizenship and Immigration Canada has taken to combat allegedly crooked consultants, you can...
UK's Definition Of Hireability Undergoing Changes
January 01, 2012 - The UK government is considering widening the definition of a criminal record when employers decide on a person's suitability to work with chil...
Irish Doing Background Checks The Old Fashioned Way
January 01, 2012 - Irish companies are turning to pre-employment lie detector tests as corporate crime rates shoot up. Big security companies, pharmaceutical firm...
Backgrounds Of Foreign Criminals Never Checked, In U.S., Either - Doesn't Surprise Straightline
January 01, 2012 - Tens of thousands of foreign criminals could be slipping through the net because police only check the backgrounds of one in seven, an official rev...
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