KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 26 — The Higher Education Ministry (MoHE) has stressed that students living in rented accommodation off campus should inform their universities of their place of residence to facilitate monitoring.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abd Kadir, said monitoring was difficult because some students arranged their own rental accommodation without going through their universities.
“So, that makes it rather difficult for us to monitor them. What we emphasise, however, is that they should always inform us of their whereabouts and where they are staying,” he said during the question-and-answer session in the Dewan Rakyat today.
He was responding to a supplementary question from Dr Ahmad Fakhruddin Fakhrurazi (PN-Kuala Kedah) on the ministry’s proposal to work with state governments and property owners to provide student rental accommodation at controlled rates near public higher education institutions (IPTAs), pending the completion of new residential colleges.
