ENEB Master Thread

[eLearner]

Perhaps, although I'll wait until there's at least a scintilla of evidence before believing this.

I can understand wanting more evidence, I would like more as well. But I think their reasoning is enough for this to be at least that scintilla. They've evaluated so many degrees over the past 40 years and would know how these systems work far more than well enough to know the fact that a school's admission policy has nothing at all to do with the level of work in a degree program. That decision calls into question what they actually evaluated: the degree program? Or the admission policy? And if this is their standard position, are they evaluating all Masters degrees from the UK as Bachelor's degrees since its common there for a Bachelors degree to be a 3-year degree? I highly doubt they are, and that brings things into question even more.

Using their logic, a precocious high schooler who was moved ahead and earned a Masters would have to have his/her Masters evaluated as a Bachelors because the University admitted him/her without a 4-year degree.

Sounds terribly fishy is all.

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I am pretty sure that the initial evaluation we're talking about was done in the context of an employment validation of the degree, not as an academic credential. So we should keep that in mind. We need a few more evaluations, as an academic credential and as individual courses––and from more than one evaluator, before we can really say much about the value of the degree outside of a very narrow window of knowledge.

Fair enough. At the same time, the concern is really centered on the reason for their conclusion which I think sits outside of the evaluation type. I can't see a reason why they would focus on the admission policy for one type of evaluation but not for another and, IIRC, ECE didn't explain it either in their long and drawn-out explanation. But assuming they do it this way as a routine practice, it begs the question of them: what would the admission policy have to do with the evaluation type?

I've just learned in life (as I think we all have) that when something doesn't make sense, and that thing that doesn't make sense is accompanied by a very long explanation that doesn't directly target the point of what's trying to be pushed across, it's usually BS.