KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): A total of 150 counsellors and psychologists have been involved in monitoring the mental health of students at all public universities in the country during the Covid-19 pandemic. Rohani had wanted to know the ministry’s measures to monitor students’ mental health and reduce their stress due to coursework, tight lecture time and strict assessment method during the pandemic. Ahmad Masrizal said 160 online stress management programmes and activities had been organised by public universities last year, along with two programmes organised by MOHE, with five more programmes lined-up for this year. MOHE has also organised similar programmes at polytechnics and community colleges nationwide and has planned 10 psychological programmes at the national level and 118 programmes at the institution level for this year, he added. - BernamaArticle type: free User access status:Join our Telegram channel to get our Evening Alerts and breaking news highlights

Source: The Star September 23, 2021 05:26 UTC