the minimum requirement is of course ridiculously low, although it was better than without, when people got accepted with d and e grades....but attempts to raise it has been blocked by a gov agency....because it will kill off a few ipts med schools....and some very important people will be very upset....

with jpa scholarships drying up, there are not enough qualified students with straight As with money...but a lot of underqualified people with lots of money...and the priority is that 3-400k income per student taken in...

Its about time, the number of medical students and universities be reduced as the number of graduates far exceed the places available.

With the new JPA policy of max 250 scholarships or better known now as loans, even better medical schools like IMU, Monash and Numed will be affected as the number of JPA scholars is quite significant.

Cannot.....reducing intake will mean closing some med schools.... Some haven't even reach their breakeven point....that would be politically very incorrect....

A proposed moratorium on number of programmes and number of students is not getting support....the ipta med schools are all still trying to increase numbers.... And only held back by their lack of academic staff....

I read on the newspaper that UM has actually been reducing the number of med students gradually each year.

This post has been edited by Alvin L: Apr 13 2016, 06:03 PM

ipta gets no money from students....and the gov, instead of cutting down on low quality training in many ipts, have ordered the very established old med schools like ukm, um and usm to cut down on undergraduate intakes and concentrate on postgraduate training...

which they willingly do, as taking less students means less cost, and less work to them....

And the results will be the drop in the quality of medical graduates.

Moreover, there will more deserving students with good grades fail to get into medical schools if they couldnt afford the high fees at ipts since scholarship for health-science related degree (mbbs , dentistry, pharmacy ) is almost non-exist.

This post has been edited by Alvin L: Apr 13 2016, 10:46 PM