College sold fake diplomas

         $480 and a couple of hours watching sub-par instructional DVD's is all you need to be registered to work with society's most vulnerable people, either as a nurse, doctor, and private care service worker. This is the case at the North York academy. Star reporter Diana Zlomislic uncovered this scam after interviewing several graduates of the so called "academy", on a project in which she was investigation several colleges in Ontairo. Students who attended this school were not taught how to do the job they were interested in but rather a 15 hour crash course of how to fake a resumé, fake porfessional references and lie your way through a job interview. This is quite frightening when you consider that this college covered fields ranging from health care to operating heavy machinery. Imagine someone with only 15 hours of mediocre experience could be operating a crane building the hospital you are registered to. This is far under the needed 490 hours to be resgistered legally in these jobs. Many projects over the years have been created to stop the rogue college industries, making the consiquences steep, but unfortunately the threat was not enough. One student who attended the school was quoted in saying " It is hard with English being my second language, there is a lot of termination." She means terminology, highlighting the lack of education that the students get in this fraud. Authorities and the Union for colleges are working to get to the base of the issue and see how many people have been scammed. The Owner/dean of the school was arrested for fraud. The school is now being transformed into a proper educational facility, under new ownership.

             In my opinion this scam is just disgraceful to colleges all over the world, the students who wanted to get a proper education, and to the province of Ontario. This act of fraud shows just how low people in this world are. I am disgusted with this discovery for two reasons. The first being because the dean of the school has no respect for anyone but himself. He showed that he didn't care for the people attending the school, who were looking for a good education, and the people who's lives could be in jepoardy because of the lack of education from the workers passing through the school, by making this school. He didn't care that he broke the promise he made to the students about providing them with a good education and more importantly, an oppurtunity to become successful. By letting people graduate people in fields such as operating heavy machinery, and health care, he was ultimately putting innocent people lives at stake. I also don't have any respect for the people who attended the school, and went on to get jobs under false pretenses. They must have known that they weren't getting jobs from their hard work, which shows they had no respect for people who work hard to get jobs. I believe in this situation no one benefited, and they should be ashamed for thier actions.