How come somebody else has to answer another person's claim?

While reading this Assurance that came to nought story, I am slightly disturbed that the complainant is asking “The onus is on the relevant authority to explain what happened because there are many undergraduates in higher learning institutions,”.

She was assured by the college that the degree was recognised when she first enrolled. Get the explaination from the same authority. Quote "She claimed that before signing up for the course, under a twinning programme with a university in Britain, the college in Petaling Jaya, had told her that the degree was recognised by the PSD".

I think she has not been looking at the real reason for her problem, and then solving it.

Is this the same reason why she has not been getting a job even after graduating?

The article refered is:-
The Star Online > Nation

Wednesday April 20, 2005
Assurance that came to nought

AFTER spending about RM34,000 and four years studying accounting at a local college, Gayethri Kulaseran, 26, was dismayed to learn that her degree is not recognised by the Public Services Department (PSD), Kosmo! reported.

She claimed that before signing up for the course, under a twinning programme with a university in Britain, the college in Petaling Jaya, had told her that the degree was recognised by the PSD.

She only learned that her degree was not recognised when her application to sit for a professional accounting examination was rejected by the Institute of Accountants Malaysia in the middle of 2003.

“I had spent about RM34,000 and worked hard for four years for a degree. Unfortunately it is not recognised,” the tabloid quoted her as saying, when met at the National Consumer Complaints Centre where she filed a complaint on Monday.

“The onus is on the relevant authority to explain what happened because there are many undergraduates in higher learning institutions,” she added.

Responding to Gayethri’s claims, NCCC investigations and complaints division manager Darshan Singh said the centre had written to the PSD Policy and Recognition Unit on March 28 regarding the case.

He added, however, that the centre had yet to receive a reply.

Berita Harian reported that the Health Ministry has given an assurance that donated blood is screened to ensure it is free from communicable diseases before it is given to patients in need.

“We do not understand why they (those infected with diseases) would want to donate blood when they know they are sick,” the daily quoted minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek as saying, during a visit to the Kuala Terengganu Hospital’s public health clinic on Monday.

The minister said the National Blood Bank does not make any mistakes when testing samples of donated blood.

But, quoting the ministry’s parliamentary secretary Lee Kah Choon in the Parliament sitting, the paper said blood tests, however, are not always 100% accurate.

Lee was quoted as admitting that some donated blood was contaminated, some even with HIV.

He also said donated blood would usually be screened to ensure it was not contaminated. “However, for HIV cases, there is a ‘window period’.” A conclusive result can only be obtained three months after exposure to the virus.


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