First-year understudies needing to seek after examinations in the clinical field should fork out for educational expenses, as all understudy loans and grants have been suspended during the current year.
The Tertiary Scholarship and Loans Board says they won’t fork out for anybody needing to take up MBBS and dentistry.
Since 2014, the Fijian Government has been apportioning sufficient subsidizing to prepare specialists, oral hygienists and dental specialists to meet the World Health Organizations’ prerequisites for the specialists to persistent proportion of 1 specialist for each 1000 individuals.
TSLB Chief Executive Bobby Maharaj laying out the explanation behind this cut.
“What we have noted is right now we have around 900 general experts in Fiji. We likewise have 790 understudies who are as yet in Years 1 to 5 of that reviews and another 105 who are probably going to graduate this year so before the year’s over, we will have over 1,000 specialists and another 790 are still between the years 1-5”
At the Fiji National University, every individual needs to fork out around $89,000 for a very long time to finish a Bachelor of Medicine.
For a dental degree, it costs around $78,000 for a very long time.
FNU says so far a sum of 260 applications have been gotten for MBBS while 70 applications have been gotten for oral wellbeing contemplates.
-FBC News
