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Call on Higher Education Minister Datuk Shafie Salleh to give full statement as to why his Ministry had violated Cabinet directive and issued “No Objection Letters” to students to pursue medical studies in Crimea State Medical University despite the lack of qualifications Media Conference (3) by Lim Kit Siang (Parliament, Wednesday): When speaking on my emergency motion yesterday on the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC)’s derecognition of Crimea State Medical University (CSMU) medical degrees, the Deputy Health Minister Datuk Dr. Abdul Latif Ahmad made the shocking disclosure that Arts-stream students who had failed their Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia were among those accepted by CSMU and that they had apparently managed to obtain no-objection letters from the Higher Education Ministry to pursue the medical course despite their lack of qualifications. If Latiff is right, then the fault lies with the Higher Education Ministry and not with CSMU and it is most unfair to punish CSMU and victimize the over 1,100 Malaysian medical students in the Ukraine medical university for the irresponsibility, negligence or abuse of power of the Higher Education Ministry.
CSMU has said that it had strictly complied with the Cabinet decision in August 2003 on the “No Objection Letter” stipulation on the standards set for Malaysian students to pursue medical study, which is the minimum requirement of three principal Cs in the STPM or equivalent or a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 3 for medicine and dentistry courses.
I call on Higher Education Minister Datuk Shafie Salleh to give a full statement as to why his Ministry had violated the Cabinet directive and issued “No Objection Letters” to students to pursue medical studies in Crimea State Medical University despite their lack of qualifications.
How many “No Objection Letters” have been issued by the Higher Education Ministry to students to pursue medical studies abroad and specifically for CSMU, how many of these “No Objection Letters” had been fraudulently issued despite their lack of qualifications since August 2003, how many Higher Education Ministry officials had been involved in such abuses and irresponsibility, whether and what disciplinary action had been taken against them.
The statement by Latiff in Parliament yesterday that the MMC had written to CSMU for an explanation in 2002 but “none was forthcoming”, and that this was proof that grace period had been given, makes no sense.
This is because the Cabinet decision on August 2002 requiring “No Objection Letters” to be issued was supposed to set down a new benchmark for the intake of Malaysian students for medical courses by CSMU, and Latiff should be giving instances about infractions or weaknesses of CSMU medical courses after the Cabinet decision post-August 2003 and not going back to 2002!
(22/06/2005)
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