July 5, 2002

India's Higher-Education Watchdog

By MARTHA ANN OVERLAND

For years, Bhagvanji Raiyani wrote letters. He wrote them to government officials, complaining about secret admissions practices and illegal tuition fees. He wrote them to university vice chancellors, complaining about the sale of everything from answer sheets to places in medical school. But no one ever wrote back.

One day in 1995, he opened his newspaper to read that a private institute that coaches students in how to pass their end-of-year exams had given high-school students the

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