The National Accreditation Council (NAC) of Guyana has listed the Ajeenkya D Y Patil University at Turkeyen (Guyana) Inc as registered even though its planned medical school has not even broken ground here as yet.
The listing is contained on the website of the NAC of the Ministry of Education at http://www.nac.gov.gy/. It is one of 29 institutions listed on the site. The listing will be seen as another anomaly in the manner in which state institutions are treating potential investors like the Indian university which has been seen as a favoured one with high government connections here.
Registration requires assessment of various areas including Legal, Policy and Regulatory Requirements, Governance and Administration, Quality Management System, Resource Management, Teaching – Learning Process, Review and Continuous Improvement. It is unclear how these assessments would have been done as the standards of the