Compiled by TEH ATHIRA YUSOF, C. ARUNO and R. ARAVINTHAN
THE Anna University in Tamil Nadu, India, will blacklist 900 professors and lecturers and impose a lifetime ban on them, Malaysia Nanban reported.
An education advocacy group in the state recently exposed that a substantial number of lecturers in engineering colleges associated with Anna University had been improperly or fraudulently hired.
As the scandal escalated, the university which has hundreds of associated or approved colleges set up a three-member panel to investigate the matter.
Following the investigation, the university in consultation with the associated colleges decided to impose a lifetime ban on the lecturers involved in the scandal.
The university will also reportedly take legal action against 295 private engineering colleges which were implicated in the scandal.
The expose has sent a shockwave through Tamil Nadu which boasts of producing a large number of engineering graduates every year.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a, it denotes a separate news item.
