Unrecognised Colleges(by official bodies) in UK

I have just received the telephone call from India from somebody regarding admission to MBA course. I come to know that one institute is charging 6500 pounds for the MBA .Now here the hunt on google goes regarding the status of this dodgy body.Yes this is dodgy ! why?
These colleges just act as academies and some even are more worse than that. Like in India we have open universities and some people open their own institutes to provide the tuition for the open university. Here is the same case and most of the colleges just mention the name of university like university of London external programme ,etc. But some institutes are even more worse they just open their own body like Dublin metropolitan university ,Irish international, Halifax college/university, Preston university, etc. They are taking flaw in the UK law that any registered body can call students if it is offering a 20hrs course. That’s why preston,Halifax are suriving and dodging the students in the united kingdom. The Government of the United Kingdom is not interested at all where the degree is recognised by the universities or not. Even the register opened by home office is a mere eye wash in my view as it just have the details of institutes offering courses of 20hrs or more. However register ensures that college must have 3 small rooms instead of one !

Sometimes I think that the situation of education is much more worse then the Indian state of Bihar which is famous for the fake colleges /universities. Well in my view Bihar is No2 and London tops in the list unofficially.

I feel pity on those students who pay these dodgy colleges/universities 6000GBP for the course and in the end they realise that they are ended up in a such fake institution.So make sure that the name of the college website is ended up with the .ac.uk ,etc.One can also confirm from the Ministry of Human resourses India ,UGC India,Immigration bodies of Canada and Newzealand.If the name of the institute is not listed in their records that means it is more likely to be fake.The exception is to some universities like RGUHS Bangaolore,VTU ,etc as the bodies are slow in updating their records.Then the golden rule of thumb look for .ac.uk,ac.in etc except for the USA.The websites for further information are


1) www.ugc.nic.in
2) http://www.education.nic.in/
3) http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/applications/guides/EG74.html -You have to ask specifically about the university or search the website for the approved colleges.
4) http://glossary.immigration.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/CE113D29-EFBF-4924-BA15-00AEF9911F83/0/1080.pdf -Concrete guide for the recognised universities world wide.
5) http://prayatna.typepad.com/education/foreign_universities_in_india/


This list is not exhaustive so you may check with other government autonomous professional bodies.
It is better to take some headache to find out more about the institute which you are going to join. Even in these western countries fraud exists and it is a complete myth that all western institutes are better than the Indian counterparts.Make sure about the university/institute status before finalising any deal with foreign institutes.

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