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Kathmandu. The 17th meeting of the Medical Education Commission held today under the chairmanship of Prime Minister and Chairman KP Sharma Oli discussed the issue of increasing the number of seats for foreign students studying in private medical colleges.
The meeting of the Commission held at the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Ministers, Singha Durbar, proposed to increase the number of foreign students to facilitate the implementation of the Commission’s decision to provide a subsistence allowance to resident doctors on a par with the government. A proposal in this regard will be made in the Commission meeting to be held soon. So far, medical colleges have made arrangements to have 10 percent of their foreign students teach.
Earlier, the 16th meeting of the commission on Magh 25 had decided to maintain a monthly subsistence allowance of 48,436 for private medical colleges, similar to the government (eighth level), addressing the demands of the resident doctors’ (students’) movement.
Today’s meeting of the commission, which has been working on integrated regulation of medical education, monitoring, conducting entrance examinations, determining the number of student seats in educational institutions and determining tuition fees, has decided to add 209 seats at the postgraduate level. Similarly, the meeting approved the report of the working group on the study, teaching and capacity building of nursing education, and discussed the criteria for merging educational institutions and programs.
In the meeting, Prime Minister Oli emphasized that the government cannot provide free education to all students and that it is necessary to take the support of private colleges as well. He urged to bring concrete proposals to prevent nursing education from drying up and to increase the services and facilities of nurses.
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