735 Ms O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a PhD in a scientific field is a degree obtained by research; her Department’s views on whether it is academic fraud for applicants for positions which require a PhD to rely on degrees purchased on the basis of life experience or other academically invalid criteria from bodies without academic campuses, qualified faculty members or three-year degree programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29111/05]

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735 Ms O’Sullivan asked the Minister for Education and Science if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a PhD in a scientific field is a degree obtained by research; her Department’s views on whether it is academic fraud for applicants for positions which require a PhD to rely on degrees purchased on the basis of life experience or other academically invalid criteria from bodies without academic campuses, qualified faculty members or three-year degree programmes; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29111/05]

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