Finally, what I have been saying all this while has come true , yet again. I first wrote about having too many universities in Malaysia over here and here. I wrote the first part in Feb 2012, almost 1 year ago. I have said many times that education should never be commercialised, especially fields like medicine etc. The quality is sure to deteriorate as all private colleges are only interested in making money and will not be bothered about quality ( with PTPTN in their pocket). What happens to the graduates is none of their problems. I had written about this many times before. Our politician’s ambition of making Malaysia an “education hub” will only backfire with low quality products which in turn will affect the productivity of this country. Majority of the students are Malaysian anyway.
Today, our Higher Education Ministry has finally admitted that we are having surplus of universities producing surplus of graduates. Thus, 2 years moratorium is being implemented immediately , starting this Friday (please read here and below). Well, I think it is just toooooooo late. The existing ones will continue to produce thousands of graduates which will saturate the market with low quality products. As of August 2012, we had 502 IPTS, not including the IPTA!! I had written about this over here, way too many for such a small country like ours.
When the government introduced moratorium of nursing colleges, I wrote this in April 2010. Remember what I said, that even if there is a moratorium, the existing schools will continue to produce thousands of graduates. Exactly as I predicted, in Oct 2012, it was made official that almost 8 000 nurses are jobless as I had written over here and here. In a knee jerk reaction, the government created 1600 nursing post in government sector, end of last year. What surprised me was the fact that the PSC chairman is saying that most of the nursing graduates do not qualify to enter civil service as they do not have 5 credits in SPM which is the minimum requirement by the government to enter nursing school and most of the nurses have only 3 credits ( please read here and below)!!! What the hell is MQA and Nursing board is doing? This is the reason I keep saying that MQA evaluation is pointless. I have sat through one and I can tell you that it is predominantly a desk audit. The college can hide a lot of facts and get away with it! The PSC chairman has got this to say “Zainal Abidin said what the government did was a short-term measure to solve the unemployment problem faced by nursing graduates, while for the long term, the Higher Education Ministry would be collaborating with the Health Ministry in setting entry qualifications” WTH!! Do you mean there were no entry qualifications before this ? Any Tom, Dick and Harry can join any course in this Bolehland?
Of course, I had written enough about the medical schools. With 36 medical schools, we will definitely have surplus of doctors by 2016/2017. Let’s see what our great Minister will say then? The moratorium still remains a moratorium on toilet paper! It seems the Ministry is asking private universities to offer clinical postgraduate courses!! These universities do not even have enough lecturers to teach undergraduate students, how are they going to teach postgraduate students on clinical skills like surgery etc etc!!
Again, GOD save this country…………………..I am nauseated!
Two-year moratorium on new private varsities, colleges from Feb 1
Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said there were enough higher education institutions in the country to serve the current demand.
“The moratorium will not affect institutions that are currently having their applications processed, exisiting institutions that set to be upgraded and branch campuses of foreign universities that rate highly in international rankings,” he said during his New Year’s address to ministry staff here Tuesday.
1.1m applications received for civil service vacancies
January 23, 2013
MUAR, Jan 23 — Some 1.1 million applications have to date been received to fill the vacancies in the public sector, according to the Public Service Commission (PSC) data bank.
PSC deputy secretary (Recruitment), Zainal Abidin Ahmad said there were 832,701 new job applications recorded last year alone.
“Out of the 1.1 million applications, 46,000 new appointments were made last year to fill the various vacancies, including 36,000 for permanent posts and the rest on contract basis.”
He said this after an interaction session between the PSC chairman and federal department and statutory body heads and representatives of associations and non-governmental organisations in Pagoh, here, today.
However, he added, there would be fewer job vacancies in the public sector this year following the government’s policy of extending the retirement age to 60 years.
Zainal Abidin said out of the new registered applications, 12 per cent or 99,385 came from Johor.
“But the number of applications from the Chinese and Indians is still small, especially from the Chinese who tend to focus on high-level posts while the Indians are less choosy.
“In this regard, we will establish better rapport with Chinese and Indian associations and the vernacular media to disseminate the relevant information and to encourage more people from this group to join the public sector.”
He also said that the government had created 1,600 new nursing posts in the public sector last month to provide job opportunities to 6,000 graduates from private institutions of higher learning.
He said most of them found difficulty to join the public sector as their entry qualification to study nursing at these learning institutions was lower than the standard set by the government, which was at least six credits in the SPM compared to only three set by some of the institutions.
Zainal Abidin said what the government did was a short-term measure to solve the unemployment problem faced by nursing graduates, while for the long term, the Higher Education Ministry would be collaborating with the Health Ministry in setting entry qualifications. — Bernama
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How many times moratorium already I heard esp medical school..bolehland..moratorium my hairy balls..
However, he added, there would be fewer job vacancies in the public sector this year following the government’s policy of extending the retirement age to 60 years….If our government admitted this why implementation was done in first place?….why not filling or increasing post in the hospital or clinic?..I am sick of this poor planning ? ..Dr Pagal any opinion?…
They actually have a lot of planning……….err, planning on how to make more money (PTPTN) and cheat the rakyat! Why bother with jobless graduates? Not my problemlah. Just give BR1M once a while to keep you subservient.
Our politicians talks rubbish all the time, to cheat the rakyat! 1″whatever”
We already have a bloated civil service which is swallowing huge amount of our budget. We will go bankrupt if not because of OIL.
Ummm….Cant wait for the outcome of the next GE, to see if Malaysians (especially the malay population ) will make the change needed.
Btw if you have not been reading Malaysiakini regularly…..please do …to get uncensored first hand news that you will never find in the local government controlled newpapers…subscription is only RM20 a month…its value for money for the news & public comments you can read.
Malaysians need to be informed.
..i do locum in few GPs.. There tendency now in hiring private nursing graduate as clinic assistant… what puzzle me.. their knowlegde and clinical skill (assisting minor surgery/ do dressing/ identifying medication ) is far more inferior than SPM leaver with similar period of working experience.. i can only guess what they learnt during their course…
They don’t learn anything!! Except bed making!
youngster’s mentality is such that they think their hierachy will go up no matter what being a doctor. If you are already ud44, 3 years later u’ll get promotoed to ud48! dr.paga , your statement/comment on this?
YES, I had written about this when the time based promotion was introduced in 2011. Who need to work when they know that they will be promoted anyway! This is the main problem with the government service and the reason why many good ones leave the service.
dear sir,
i am in confusion of choosing the best college fr my medic progrme…
i hve jus finished foundation…rite now i have this choices to choose from ukm-aucms md aucms md,usu indonesia,aimst and ucsi md…im totally confused which md prgme to choose as i dun have any knowledge of this universities..pls help me sir..thank u
aimst is OK. UCSI so far so good. I don’t trust aucms.
tq for ur reply sir…can u pls tel me the reason fr nt trusting aucms college …..sir what criteria we should look fr when choosing a quality medical school for md prgme…is it wise to choose a college bsed on ranking?
our malaysian ranking is good for nothing.
do you know that AUCMS is the only university in the WORLD which runs 5 medical programs !! the world is laughing! even to run 1 medical school is a BIG task. Most established medical schools in the world only runs 1 medical program.
Hi Dr Paga,how about Mahsa University college?
No comments yet as no graduates so far.
Tq for the reply Dr.What about the teaching staffs quality in the Medical faculty?.Are they reasonably good in their teaching apptitude?.tq
Tq Dr Paga.Anyway do you have any idea which hospital or hospitals their medic students are placed during the clinical training phase.From what I heard they are placed in UMMC, UH, hospital Sg Buloh or HUKL?.Appreciate your comment.Tq
Yes, these are the hospitals they use. Mainly HKL.
One more thing Dr Paga, do you know why Mahsa Uni College was not ranked recently in SETARA 2011?.Has it got to do with the quality of the overall teaching faculty?. Tq
Firstly, I don’t trust SETARA. But since they are new and yet to be accreditated by MMC, this could be the reason.
Tq Dr Paga.Please provide your thoughts on SETARA.Then what alternative is or are available or avenues for prospective student or parent to evaluate the quality of the private instituitions concern.Tq
ask the people who are working there
Dr Paga,in your line of work so far, have you heard anything remotely worth mentioning about the quality of Mahsa students training in these hospitals?Tq
nope
[…] So, can anyone still deny that doctors can become jobless? We are just producing too many graduates in every field. The private colleges are having a field time producing half baked graduates for the sake of money……………. The realisation is simply tooooooo late!! […]
Tq Dr Paga
I read that recently, MMC gave recognition to two Chinese medical universities in Shanghai after having paid them a visit in December 2012. Which are the 2 Chinese Medical universities?
It’s 2 universities in Shanghai, listed as one of the top unis iin the world. Can’t remember the exact name.
PKR is trying too hard….
http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2013/03/27/pkr-hits-out-mmcs-foot-dragging-on-cmsu/
It’s the India vote they are after. Like all political parties, it’s votes that count, other consideration usually have to take a back seat.
Honestly do we really need CSMU again? I can’t believe this statement, ‘…depriving thousands of Malaysian students keen to pursue affordable medical studies.’ He has conveniently forgotten that these ‘thousands’ who are keen for ‘affordable’ studies are usually ‘rejected’ from proper medical schools due to their poor academic qualifications. Of course there are few good ones but generally speaking the quality of graduates are simple abominable.
There’s already an exodus of junior doctors in Malaysia from many ‘world renowned’ universities.Do we need ‘thousands’ more from recognising CSMU and contribute to the worsening scenario?
Most countries in the world accepts the best into their medical programmes, be it developed or developing countries. Only here, we have medical doctors with questionable academic qualifications.
The names of the 2 chineses universities are to be found here: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2013/3/20/nation/20130320191741&sec=nation