**3.2 Perceptions of learner nurses according to the selected criteria of the council on higher education's programme accreditation**

The following sections illustrate obstacles identified from selected criteria of the council on higher education's programme accreditation, which was applied to describe learner nurses' perspectives regarding the bachelor of nursing and midwifery curriculum. The obstacles were identified and quantified by 129 learner nurses of a selected higher educational institution with the use of a questionnaire. The quantitative data were analyzed using descriptive statistics as facilitated by SPSS version 27 software.
