Rating system for medical colleges

Students looking to gain admission in colleges affiliated to the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University may find the process a lot easier next year. Authorities are mulling over formulating a rating system for these institutions to help students decide the category of college that they want to join, university vice-chancellor Dr Mayil Vahanan Natarajan said.

Univ's largesse to medical students: 10 to 45 grace marks each

In what could leave a serious dent on the quality of medical education and prove a gross violation of the Medical Council of India (MCI) Act, the Tamil Nadu Dr MGR Medical University has admitted that it granted as much as 45 marks as grace for students who appeared for a supplementary examination in February 2009. A university committee granted all students, who failed the first year exam, 35 grace marks for anatomy and biochemistry and 10 for physiology. The number of students who passed the exams after this shower of largesse rose from 81 to 161.