Former minister Rafidah Aziz lambasted the Higher Education Ministry (MOHE) for the country’s unusually large number of private colleges and questioned the screening process for accreditation, following reports on accreditation issues faced by Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT) students.

Rafidah observed that there were 414 private colleges before she questioned how the MOHE is vetting the curricula of these institutions.

“How are they being benchmarked in order to be able to produce...