How Prevalent are Bogus Degrees?

Paul Townend asks: "The BBC are reporting that a US government investigation has found that 28 top federal employees possess bogus college degrees (usually based on 'life experience'), and the phenomenon may be much bigger. Have Slashdot readers come across or worked with people with such degrees? Does it give them an advantage? What happens when they're discovered?"

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[GigsVT]

If they were qualified without the "fake" degree why didn't they apply that way?

Because a lot of jobs require degrees for no reason.

I don't see how you can call it "overcompensation".

If they weren't doing the job they were hired to do, then they should have been fired for poor performance.

If they were doing the job well enough to command their compensation without getting fired, then that proves the degree is bullshit, by your own argument.