Amity University has been given permission by India¡¯s Ministry of Human Resources Development (HRD) to award degrees via its London campus, at which some degrees are validated by Anglia Ruskin University.
Amity¡¯s campus is already up and running in Bedford Square, central London.
Non-profit Amity, India¡¯s first private university, is known for its high-profile sponsorship in Indian Premier League cricket.
The HRD ministry has said any degree to be awarded through the ¡°said off-shore campus in United Kingdom shall distinctly and prominently distinguish itself from the degree certificate awarded by AmityUniversity, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, for all its programmes conducted/offered in India¡±, the Times of India reported.
It has added that ¡°degree certificates to be awarded in respect of the academic programme of the off-shore shall clearly bear the name of the off-shore campus¡±.
Atul Chauhan, Amity¡¯s chancellor, told the newspaper: ¡°Being an off-shore campus of an Indian university, the degrees will be very much Indian. There is no other possibility. ¡°What the ministry has written is that for the sake of employment in certain professions in India the students [graduating from Amity in London] will be deemed as if they obtained a foreign degree.¡±
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