Ministry cancels doctorial programme at Plzeň law school

The Law College of the University of West Bohemia in Plzeň has had its doctorial programme cancelled by the Ministry of Education. The college was hit last year by a series of scandals involving its methods of accepting students, plagiarism and ‘fast-track’ degrees for those who paid for them. Twelve people, some of them public figures, had their diplomas revoked. More than thirty teachers left the institution at the end of the last school year. The present conditions at the school will be re-examined in January.