Star: PETALING JAYA: One nursing college has been directed to close its programme and four others asked to improve theirs by the Higher Education Ministry after complaints from students and the public.
The Damai Service Hospital (Melawati) in Taman Melawati, which had enrolled 17 student nurses without registering its programme with the ministry and the Malaysian Nursing Association, has been given a show cause letter and directed to close its programme with immediate effect, said minister Datuk Mustapa Mohamed in a press statement yesterday.
Four other errant colleges –Masterkill Nursing and Health College, Cheras; Windfield International College, Kuala Lumpur; Islamic Science and Technology College, Kelantan and Seri Manjung Nursing and Health Sciences College, Perak – have been asked to reform their student welfare and lecturer to student ratio.
The ministry will also hold a moratorium on the approval of nursing programmes and establishment of IPTS offering these programmes from today.
Under the Private Higher Education Act 1996, IPTS wanting to offer nursing programmes have to register with the Higher Education Ministry and the Malaysian Nursing Association and Health Ministry.
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