The Universities and University Colleges Act (UUCA) will be amended in Parliament next week to allow students hauled up for indiscipline the chance to appeal.

Education Deputy Minister Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi said presently, students at matriculation colleges and institutions of higher learning had no avenues to appeal.

"We have to allow students the chance to appeal before sacking is
implemented," he said when opening SM Sains Muar Parent-Teachers Association meeting in Tanjung Agas today.

Puad said the Education Ministry had been asked to improve the existing rules and regulations at public institutions of higher learning.

- Bernama