INDIA: Scandal encourages university review
June 1st, 2009
By Raghavendra Verma
India's newly re-elected Congress Party-lead government has been rocked by a higher education scandal that has forced the new Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal to take radical steps. After a meeting with University Grants Commission (UGC) officials, he has ordered that the so-called 'deemed university status' awarded to 125 tertiary education institutions be reviewed, with all pending requests to assume this status be shelved.
Universities in India have traditionally only been established by legislation, but this newer 'deemed ...
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