Higher Education Minister Noraini Ahmad took Universiti Malaya to task for barring an unvaccinated student from taking her examination.
“While the ministry fully supports efforts to encourage students to register for vaccines, universities are not allowed to formulate their own regulations and standard operating procedures (SOP) related to Covid-19 separately from the National Security Council’s (NSC) decision,” she was quoted as saying by The New Straits Times.
She said the NSC does not set different regulations for unvaccinated people.
Noraini said universities must protect the welfare of students to ensure they are not left out during the Covid-19 pandemic
Noraini was responding to an incident where a 22-year-old medical student lodged a police report after her university barred her from taxing her clinical exam.
The medical student’s father, Mohd Razif, claimed UM failed to inform his daughter, Nik Farah Ellisha, that she would be barred for not being vaccinated against Covid-19.
Nik Farah had opted not to get vaccinated.
The examination from which she was allegedly barred from taking is a clinical exam that requires medical students to interact with real-life patients. - Mkini
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