India has seen many education scam and shut-down of 40+universities in one shot( case of Chhatisgarh state). You may heard how SMU made huge money by violating the norms of distance education council of India and made billions with help of false & misleading advertising over TV, Internet, and News papers.
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CMJ appointment at CMJ University has been challenged and matter is in court. If it is invalid then other appointments done by CMJ, as an illegal person would be also consider as illegal and invalid. It means whatever degrees has been awarded so far will be treated as invalid. Regular campus students may get some relief from court. Others students, no matter how hard they did for earning degrees or just bought may not get relief from honourable court.
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Sooner all phony PhD and MPhil degrees being awarded by some private state universities will stop as it will be not available in correspondence/open/distance mode. A good news for true learners! Many peoples were buying these phony degrees from some private universities who were involve in this kind of business through their agencies. Now, UGC and other corresponding officials are agree and planning to stop research courses in distance mode.
I found it as a good sign by stopping research courses in distance mode but not as a solution. Will it solve our problem? No. It is not a good idea. Instead of stopping it, our officials should stop and take action against degree sellers.
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IGNOU's DEC has been dissolved wef 4 May 2013 and UGC is now main regulatory for Open & Distance Learning. Be smart while choosing institution or University for distance mode technical courses.
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Distance mode or Correspondence mode or Open mode education is being common in India. Government is planning to reach at remote areas with good quality of education. Premier institutions reach ex. IITs is now expanded. For faster approval of new distance university setup, a joint venture of DEC, AICTE & UGC has been come.
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