Police are investigating an Indian university suspected of issuing fake PhDs after it awarded more than 400 doctorates in a single year, officers said Wednesday.
All those eligible out of the nearly 1,600 students who applied for the management quota test on May 31 in eight colleges under the Kerala Private Medical College Management Association (KPMCMA) will be allowed to take the re-test being held by the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) on June 22.
Weeks after the state government notified model guidelines for private institutions to set up universities, three big groups have put forward their proposals to the higher and technical education department.
In a desperate bid to fill up seats in private engineering colleges, the state government has decided to slash the admission fee, payable at a time by Rs 20,000.
Education minister BhupendrasinhChudasma has retained the Gujarat University papers granting permission to three private institutes for commencing five-year integrated professional courses to be run from the university campus.
The new Act making one-year rural service compulsory for new MBBS doctors is all set to snowball into a major controversy as chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has already signed an agreement with private medical colleges, exempting management quota students from rural stint.
The University Grants Commission has cautioned students that no university, whether Central, State, private or deemed can offer its programmes through franchisee arrangement with private coaching institutions even for distance mode courses. The commission in a recent notification advised students not to take admission in unapproved study centres, off campus centres, franchisee institutions, colleges / institutions claiming to be affiliated with private universities or deemed universities.
On the issue of setting up of 20 new private universities, Mr. Deshpande said a three-member official committee has been set up to monitor the availability of infrastructure and quality of education in private universities.