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Wednesday, May 05, 2004
As good as other degrees or better - Straits Times
At an interview for a job, 22-year-old Chiew Vee Tian's prospective employers hemmed and hawed when they heard he had obtained his degree online, through e-learning provider PurpleTrain.com. But after he had finished the test they set him, they were convinced the web programmer's qualifications were as good as those from a bricks-and-mortar institution. They asked him to create a website containing an application form where users could input personal information about themselves to set up an online profile. He managed to do it in just 30 minutes and ended up landing the job, as 'the other interviewees took between an hour or two'. Mr Chiew, a Malaysian who works in Singapore, has a Bachelor of Science degree with honours in computing from the University of Portsmouth in Britain.
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