COMMENT | Proposals for reforming higher education

COMMENT | Pergerakan Tenaga Akademik Malaysia (GERAK), or Malaysian Academics Movement, issues this memorandum, containing proposals for higher education reform.

We previously regularly discussed these points in public, as well as with political and administrative officials over the years. Indeed, some reforms we propose here are more urgent.

We and many others – both in government as well as in academia and civil society – are confident that the proposals outlined are realistic and achievable.

Gerak feels that to implement the following proposals, all that is needed is political will, enabled by an efficient bureaucracy.

We hope that the Higher Education Ministry will seriously consider our proposals as they are in line with the ideals of the current Madani government...