How does this work, exactly? Did James Shaw get a special exemption?
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How does this work, exactly? Did James Shaw get a special exemption?
Sequence of events (and leaving out a number of other lies by James Shaw)...:
1) His linkedin said he had a Bachelor's degree.
2) Apparently not! Now it says he doesn't have a Bachelor's degree.
3) People wonder how he got a Master's without a Bachelor's!
4) He refuses to confirm the way he got his "Master's".
5) This is all ok, and the mainstream media don't care. And he hasn't resigned.
Why should he resign? Literally, who cares whether he has a degree or not? Qualifications have their place, but they don't guarantee anything. Pretty sure we all know someone with a degree who is useless as tits on a bull.
I assume you are sharing this because you believe he has been dishonest. Who knows? But let's just focus on the important stuff right now. Stuff like this is just a distraction.
With all due respect JAK, the point is that degrees open doors to opportunities that are denied to those without degrees. It’s a stipulation for the type of roles Shaw was applying for. Yes, some people with degrees ‘are as useless as tits on a bull’, I fully agree with you. More than ‘some’ in fact, there are countless numbers of them out there. But qualifications are requirements, they indicate skills that someone has acquired. This is about trust and integrity. Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon who had forged his medical qualifications? Would you want your house built by an unqualified builder? Would you want your house designed by an unqualified architect? Would you want your car worked on by an unqualified mechanic? Would you want to read academic papers by someone who falsified their qualifications and also their research?
3 points:
1/ Claiming you have a degree when you don’t steals an opportunity from someone who spend the time & money to get themselves qualified.
2/ In certain circumstances you are called upon to apply knowledge that you acquired in the process of gaining a degree. If you in fact do not possess the knowledge you claim to, you are a fraud.
3/ This is about personal integrity, & also trust in the system. If someone is making false claims about their qualifications they are behaving without integrity. The more high-profile cases there are where people are exposed as having made false claims about their qualifications, the more trust is eroded in the system.
I think this is very serious, very serious indeed. Much more serious than claiming that Mandela would have supported ACT’s stance on ‘co-governance’.
It's fraud. What bigger thing can there be than that, for a government minister?
And check this AIESEC (an NGO) page:
"With a BA from Victoria University of Wellington and an MSc in Responsibility in Business Practice from the University of Bath’s School of Management, James Shaw spent five years in AIESEC, taking up roles such as Local Committee President of AIESEC Victoria, President of AIESEC New Zealand and acted as a Project Manager in AIESEC International."
https://aiesec-alumni.org/james-shaw-profile/
The pressure from ‘alternative’ media will continue, you can be sure of that. If Shaw has nothing to hide then why would he stand in the way of the relevant checks being made? He made a false claim about one degree, and was caught out. Now he is trying to stop an investigation into another. If he continues to obfuscate all the way up to the election, it will speak volumes.
Personally, I think it is utterly disgraceful that he claimed a degree he did not achieve.