Another challenge to the running of practicals in universities is that lecturers involved in proctoring the laboratories are not given the recognition as it is not considered in the key performance index in their career development. There is little effort to solve the budget issue by looking for alternative cheaper experiments to run. Instead, the easy solution is to increase the number of students per group from 4 to more and to reduce the number of experiments per semester. This practice will result in producing graduates who are less competent in laboratory techniques. With the status of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia as a research university, academic staff tends to give more attention to equip the research laboratories.