Crisis Over Admissions Into Nursing Training Colleges.

Crisis Over Admission -
Into Nursing Training
Colleges
Updated : 13 - Jul - 2015
Most senior high school graduates
who have successfully met the
admission requirements of
nursing training colleges and have
applied for admission will not be
admitted because government has
imposed a quota on the schools .
The imposition of the quota has ,
therefore, reduced admissions by
half, and this directly contradicts
government ’s position that
allowances for teacher and
nursing training students be
scrapped in order to increase
enrolment at training institutions.
A letter from the Ministry of
Health to principals of nursing
training colleges warned that
those who do not strictly abide by
the quota will be sanctioned .
Checks by The Finder at the Health
Ministry confirmed that a quota
has been imposed, and the
explanation is that training has to
be controlled so that the state will
be in a position to employ
graduates of such schools .
Quota imposed on nursing
training colleges
Schools that have been admitting
200 students per programme such
as State Registered Nursing ,
Community Health Nursing and
Certificate Nursing have been
asked to admit 100 students for
each of the programmes .
This means that a school that runs
the three programmes mentioned
above has to cut its total
admission to 300 students instead
of the 600 which it would have
admitted without the quota .
Over 2 ,000 qualified candidates
applied for State Registered
Nursing in one training college,
but with the quota, only 100 will
be offered admission.
Already, over 2 ,000 qualified
nurses and midwives who
successfully completed National
Service do not have jobs .