Govt urged to cancel Lincoln College’s licence

B Nantha Kumar

| May 21, 2012

A PKR leader accuses the Health Minister of deliberately ignoring the controversy surrounding the private institution.

PETALING JAYA: A PKR leader today sought the withdrawal of a licence given to Lincoln University College (LUC) to run an offshore medical programme in the Ukraine.

Malacca PKR vice chairman G Rajendran, referring to a report that LUC was one of four private colleges that were fined last year for breaching a moratorium on nursing courses, said it was “strange” that the government had ignored this bad record when approving the licence last Nov 29.

However, it is not clear whether the breach was discovered before or after Nov 29.

The disclosure of the offence came last March 26 from Deputy Higher Education Minister Hou Kok Chung, who was replying to a question in Parliament. The moratorium, to address the problem of oversupply of nurses, has been in place since July 2010.


LUC and MMC could not be contacted for comment.

Tuesday April 17, 2012

Varsity lecturers to help out at 22 hospitals

By ROSHIDI ABU SAMAH
roshidi@thestar.com.my

TAPAH: The Health Ministry has identified 22 public and private universities which will provide specialist medical services in 22 district hospitals nationwide.

Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said the universities were among 33 public and private universities in the country that offer medical courses.

He described it as a smart partnership as the hospitals would provide all the necessary facilities while the universities would send their lecturers who are also medical experts with various specialisations.

He said the collaboration would result in more patients receiving specialist treatment with a shorter waiting period.

“It is a win-win solution for the ministry, universities and the public,” he said after witnessing the signing of the smart partnership between the ministry and nine universities at the Tapah Hospital yesterday.

The ministry was represented by its secretary-general Datuk Kamarul Zaman Md Isa while the nine universities were represented by their vice-chancellors or top officials.

The nine universities that inked the partnership agreement were:

- Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman that would provide specialist medical service at the Tapah Hospital,
- Management and Science University (Kuala Kubu Baru Hospital), Perdana University (Bentong Hospital)
- Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Serian Hospital),
- UCSI University (Dungun Hospital),
- Lincoln University College (Lahad Datu Hospital),
- Allianze University College of Medical Sciences (Kepala Batas Hospital),
- Melaka Manipal Medical College (Jasin Hospital)
- Mahsa University College (Tanjung Karang Hospital).

Liow said the signing ceremony with the remaining 13 universities would be held later.

“The partnership will help ease congestion at main hospitals and increase the bed occupancy rate at district hospitals,” he said, adding that priority areas include internal medicine, general surgery, paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, orthopedic and anaesthesiology.

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If it's not for the fact that I have a family in tow, I'd contemplate going to Russia too....

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Added on June 15, 2012, 1:44 pmBtw - http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...2854&sec=nation

So.. lets take a bet - how many medical schools from China will be included in the schedule?

If it's not for the fact that I have a family in tow, I'd contemplate going to Russia too....

What happened?

Why the contrast with your Monash now and Russia? These are two extremes!

Getting stressed up waiting for your funding approval?

Yeap. I was already given an "eviction notice".

*goes to suck thumb at a corner*

http://youtu.be/UovB4DjkZ2I

UCSI JPA scholars in trouble.. dum dee dum

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsgeneral.php?id=675035

Is it even remotely POSSIBLE that their results sucked? 

UCSI JPA scholars in trouble.. dum dee dum

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsgeneral.php?id=675035

Are they talking about 13 out of 55 PSD premedic students given places in UCSI MBBS programme or UCSI only able to admit 13 to their premedic course ?