Bhubaneswar, April 24 -- The University Grants Commission (UGC) has taken note of some incidents where some individuals/ organisations are offering fake online programmes with misleading abbreviations.

In a latest notice, the UGC stated that some individuals/ organisations are offering online programmes with acronyms/ abbreviated forms which are similar to the higher education system's recognised degree programmes. One such programme to which the attention of the UGC has been drawn is '10 days MBA'.

UGC has cleared that the nomenclature of a degree, including its acronyms/ abbreviated form, duration, and entry qualification, is specified by the Commission. This has been done with the previous approval of the Central government through t...