For Indians, who constitute roughly 45 per cent of the total population of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), it is music to the ears. The Indian government, undoubtedly after intense deliberations with local authorities, has declared that the UAE government will issue equivalency certificates to all Indian degrees. For those expats seeking jobs in the Gulf kingdom — and there are many — this is the best piece of news. Now, the UAE government has agreed that it would have no objection to equivalence of the degrees that meet all other certificate equivalence criteria. A leading corporate screening committee told the local media that as high as 25 per cent of Indian degrees were fake, leading to hiring problems.

Source: dna April 02, 2019 01:30 UTC