PETALING JAYA, Aug 29 (Bernama) -- Universiti Malaya (UM), the only university in the country to offer a degree in nursing, plans to extend the course up to the Masters level.
Higher Education Minister Datuk Dr Shafie Mohd Salleh Monday said that if it was agreed by the ministry, UM could begin offering the course from the 2006/2007 academic year.
"The country is short of nurses, government hospitals alone have 12,110 vacancies," he said when opening the 2005 International Nursing Research Conference here. The two-day conference is organised by UM's Medical Faculty.
Shafie said the nursing career offered many opportunities locally and abroad and that when he was in Saudi Arabia recently he met Malaysian nurses there who were earning between RM10,000 and RM15,000 a month.
He added that Malaysia had also agreed to send more nurses to the kingdom and hoped more males would take up the profession.
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