ENEB New Master Thread

[eLearner]

I can go either way on that. The public is so trained by mass media to quickly dismiss things as "conspiracy theories" and even misunderstand the term itself as being negative. In reality, it all starts as a theory, and conspiracies happen all the time. Many of the things throughout history that people were dead certain were just "conspiracy theories" turned out to be fact, and that's just in recent history. Forget about the other thousands of years where that's happened.

I'll be real: If I were a different person and I was running an FCE agency and knew how dependent the business was on having a good reputation and staying on the list with universities that routinely charge as much as 80-100K+ for a degree, I would for sure consider the impact of giving people living in this country full recognition to their foreign degrees that cost pennies compared to what our universities charge. If business in that part stops, that's a minor if not insignificant loss because I know that there are well over 100 countries and plenty more business will come in to such an extent that we won't miss the loss of a few evaluations of Spanish degrees.

Or, maybe all of it is just due to ineptitude. But I have a hard time believing that people who have multiple degrees and have been evaluating for many years (we can look up the evaluators) wouldn't know better than to make some of decisions they've made based on some of the absurd reasoning I've seen used. Some of what I've read comes across as "I just don't want to give full recognition to this and I don't have a good reason. But this person isn't going to know any better, so let me just tell them something and they'll go away" and people probably do just go away most of the time. I also take into account that the evaluators are dealing with high volume and limited time, so that doesn't help either, but it still doesn't excuse things.

In the end, these evaluations have a real impact on some people's lives, so it's important that people get what they paid for: fairness and accuracy.