"Fake SCU degrees, North Coast TAFE diplomas for $6500 a pop" is a very misleading headline, since that's the top price for a forgery purporting to come from any Australian university. I was thinking "There are people who would pay $6500 for a piece of paper claiming that they attended Australia's least reputable credential mill? Why?"

I think the Regional Universities Network should jump on this bandwagon right away and demand HECS funding for purchases of forged degrees. It's the ultimate in customer satisfaction for the "less academically prepared students" who are SCU's target market, and if anything's going to generate positive word of mouth, it's alumni who never actually had to deal with SCU.