Lure of the lucre for the clinical lecturers


PETALING JAYA: Ultimately, it is the lure of the ringgit. Clinical lecturers in public universities can earn up to five times more in private institutions, according to a medical faculty dean.

Those who stay on do so out of their passion to teach, said Universiti Malaya (faculty of medicine) dean Prof Dr Adeeba Kamarulzaman.

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