CONCERN OVER MEDICAL SCHOOLS
Wednesday December 1, 2010.
PETALING JAYA: The Higher Education Ministry will keep a close eye on foreign medical schools after a task force discovered that a sizeable number of Malaysian students at Mansoura University, Egypt, did not possess non-objection certificates (NOCs).
The NOC is a certificate issued by the ministry before Malaysian students can study medicine abroad.
Students must also have the NOC before they can apply for Govern¬ment loans or scholarships.
Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin told The Star that his ministry was concerned about the issue and more checks would be done, particularly at universities with Government-sponsored students.
He added that this would ensure that Malaysian medical students abroad received not only quality education, but mixed with the right group of students as well.
“We (the ministry) will hold discussions with the university authorities and our Egyptian counterparts before deciding on how best to manage this,” he said.
The task force was sent to Mansoura to ascertain whether the university’s medical faculty met international standards.
The ministry received its findings yesterday and it could be the precursor of a coordinated operation to uphold quality.
There were currently 926 Malaysian students at Mansoura, with 493 pursuing the varsity’s homegrown medicine course and the rest following a twinning programme involving the University of Man¬chester.
Mohamed Khaled confirmed that there were Government-sponsored students at Mansoura but said that the ministry’s recognition of the varsity would not be reviewed.
“Although this is a serious case, the university is reputable and it adheres to quality standards,” he said.
Responding to a recent report in The Star, Mohamed Khaled said that close cooperation with the Health Ministry was necessary to ensure the quality of medical students graduating from foreign institutions.
He added that he supported the Health Ministry’s suggestion to assess foreign graduates before they started their housemanship as weaknesses could be detected early.
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N.B : This is the reason why we have to support our university's effort in order to achieve the Educational Accreditation. Once our university is accreditated, it will be a great bonus for us. Its an international level achievement. The most important thing is, your degree certificate of Medicine would be from AN ACCREDITATED UNIVERSITY.. InsyaAllah, Amin!
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