BU to close down franchisee education centres

Coimbatore | Saturday | 19th May, 2018

Summary:

This would mean that franchisee centres within the State would also have to wind up operations. more-inBharathiar University has decided to withdraw the Centre for Participatory Programmes and Centre for Online Programmes starting the 2018-19 academic year and will ask franchisee centres that have been offering the programmes to make no new admission. The University announced its decision at its Syndicate meeting that was held here on Friday in the presence of Higher Education Secretary Sunil Paliwal. The sources said that the University’s decision followed the University Grants Commission regulations that took a serious view of such programmes. To this, Mr.

Paliwal said that the Bharathiar University had been trying to get the UGC to relax the rules, the sources said..