KOTA KINABALU: The Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) must be more vigilant in monitoring the activities of higher learning institutes in the country.
By doing this, the ministry will be reducing the risks of students and their parents being cheated by unscrupulous institutions, Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) deputy president Datuk Eric Majimbun and vice president Datuk Chua Soon Bui said.
Eric, who is also Sepanggar member of parliament, said the mushrooming of higher education institutions had resulted in them competing with one another.
While competition is good, these institutions are eager to claim to be educators and some will somehow find ways and means to find loopholes in the Education Act.
"This is the problem, so MOHE and the Education Department should have a proper system to monitor all the higher learning institutes. Without monitoring, unwanted incidents could occur like what is happening here in Sabah.
"It should not happen at all," he told reporters after receiving a memorandum from a couple. who had initially enrolled their daughter,in a learning institute here but encountered some problems with the institute.
Lastmonth, the concerned parents, Dr Kang Kee Yeow and his wife, turned to SAPP Wanita chief Melanie Chia for assistance over the conditions of accommodation given to students of the said insitute.
