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....

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....