CLEA & UAIII on Masstercursos

[nykorn]

...Yet, if I list a bunch of unaccredited Máster courses from this relatively unknown provider, I either have to add a bunch of notations, do a lot of explaining during interviews, or simply have my CV thrown out before I get the chance to even meet with a company, even if listing these as professional development.

This is happening in the anglosphere as well. I have seen about a billion courses taught by American "gurus", some offering certificates of completion or "certification" (no accreditation, and a license is not needed to practice), which are titled things like "Master x y z". And I am getting a degree in Education, where in the public school industry they calling anything the students are supposed to learn "master" instead of "learn / know" on lesson plans and official board of education documents, despite the student being far from competent at that level - this trend may have influenced that. Anyways, unless you are in certain countries, you don't actually have to directly translate, or list the certificate on your CV as exactly what it has written on it (I wouldn't list a Spanish "bachillerato" on my CV as anything that could be misunderstood to mean a "baccalaureate"!). I have plenty of certifications and no one has ever complained that what I wrote on my CV didn't 1:1 match what the certificate said - 99% of potential employers never even ask to see the certificate, unless I am using it to get a visa. But I work in Education and the Hotel industry so your industry may be different.

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Just out of curiosity, do you feel the same about listing ENEB in your CV?

For ENEB in the US, I would list whatever the foreign credit evaluator deemed it to be because that is what an employer would need to see proof of (literally, when I turned in my foreign Bachelor's plus the FCE report to my employer, the hiring manager didn't even glance at my original Bachelor's documents, they only looked at the FCE report - and they barely even glanced at the FCE report!). If I already knew the job didn't require an FCE then I would just list it as a Master (based off the Validential report, and leaving out the fact that it is "unaccredited"), again because there would be proof to back it up with. 

In most other countries I would probably list it as a 1-Year Postgraduate Program, unless I knew (by reading that country's immigration laws, etc) that it could be counted as something better. I base this off of that most countries require at least a 15 ECTS final project or final thesis for it to count as an actual degree, and I took an exchange year which didn't have a final project, so the certificate for that just says "1-Year Course of Study".

In Europe I would just write exactly what it says on the certificate (60 ECTS Master in...) since they are supposed to take it at face value as long as it's not for education admissions or job licensing.

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Master Cursos is operating in a strange way. Entire degrees have suddenly disappeared. Some have reappeared but at inadequately low ECTS levels.

The degree I signed up for as well as the other ones I can remember looking at are still there and still with 64 ECTS, they are just on the second page of results. Not sure which ones got deleted.