Students who scored 4.00 for their Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) who applied to pursue a medical course this year have been assured that they would be able to do so at local universities.
Minister of Higher Education Datuk Dr Shafie Salleh said the government was taking steps so that issues like the failure of 128 students to secure places at universities to study medicine last year would not be repeated.
He said there were sufficient local universities where they could study medicine.
The Minister said the local universities offering medical courses had adequate and quality teaching equipment.
He said his ministry had also acquired many teaching equipment this year and had sought the cooperation of the Health Ministry not to withdraw the doctors whom they had lent as lecturers.
"We assure those who obtained a CGPA of 4.00 and applied to do medicine will be able to do so", he told reporters after handing over initial loan funds totalling RM1,500 to 262 students here, Friday.
Last year a total of 907 students who passed the Sijil Tinggi Persekolahan Malaysia (STPM) and matriculation who obtained 4.0 for their CGPA applied to study medicine but only 779 people secured places.
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