KUALA LUMPUR – The Higher Education Ministry (MoHE) plans to allow students of higher learning institutions (IPTs) to return to campuses for the 2021/2022 academic session through its IPT Recovery Plan (Pemulih IPT) starting next month.
Its minister, Datuk Seri Noraini Ahmad, said the move to reopen all IPTs under all phases of the National Recovery Plan (NRP) is in line with efforts to enable students to return to their campuses after they have been fully vaccinated, as announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob on August 22.
She said the matter was agreed on during the special meeting of the National Security Council on Thursday.
Noraini said she met Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin yesterday to propose IPT students and staff be given priority in getting their Covid-19 jabs.
“We have the same goal, that is, to have a safe campus community by October,” she said in a post on Facebook last night.
Noraini said the ministry had projected that 1.296 million vaccine doses are needed to vaccinate 648,000 students, adding it proposed that vaccination centres (PPVs) at IPTs be converted into specially designated PPVs for IPT students and staff. – Bernama, September 4, 2021
